Tapper headlines list of J’cans at New Balance Indoor
Seven Jamaicans, including Olympic Games bronze medallist Megan Tapper, are scheduled to compete at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting in Boston on Sunday.
Tapper will line up in the women’s 60m hurdles; Orlando Bennett and Giano Roberts will contest the men’s equivalent; Carey McLeod will take part in the men’s long jump; Briana Williams and Ackeem Blake will contest the women’s and men’s 60m, and Junelle Bromfield will run the women’s 400m.
Tapper will take on a quality field led by 100m hurdles world record holder Tobi Amusan of Nigeria, Great Britain’s Cindy Sember, and the American duo of Tia Jones and Masai Russell.
American Grant Holloway will be trying to extend his three-year unbeaten run in the men’s 60m hurdles when he lines up along side Bennett and Roberts, as well as compatriots Freddie Crittenden and Daniel Roberts.
Williams, who will run indoors for the first time since 2022, faces a field that will include Americans Mikiah Brisco and Aleia Hobbs, and Zoe Hobbs of New Zealand.
Blake, who will be running indoors for the first time, faces a top class field led by American World Champion Noah Lyles, Ronnie Baker, and Fred Kerley.
McLeod, who has a personal best 8.40m indoors, the Jamaican record, stands good chance to win the men’s long jump but he will get competition from Laquan Nairn of The Bahamas and Americans Will Williams and Jarrion Lawson.
Bromfield will try to match strides in the women’s 400m against Raevyn Rogers of the USA, and Lisanne de Witte of the Netherlands.