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Amber Anning and Yusuf Bizimana set to defend their NCAA titles  

March 7, 2024
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British athletes able to make their mark on the collegiate stage on the 2024 Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation (NCAA) Indoor Observe and Area Championships this weekend

British hopes are excessive on the NCAA Indoor Championships this weekend (March 7-9) in Boston with reigning champions Amber Anning and Yusuf Bizimana aiming for gold as soon as once more. 

Final 12 months, Bizimana initially completed second to Navasky Anderson within the males’s 800m earlier than being later promoted to first place after the Jamaican was disqualified. 

The victory made the 23-year-old the primary Briton since Josh Kerr in 2018 to win an NCAA particular person indoor title. 

One 12 months later, Bizimana stays on high kind with a private better of 1:45.74, inserting him on the high of the UK males’s indoor 800m rankings this 12 months – with Man Learmonth sitting in second place. 

Anning, additionally 23, broke the long-standing UK indoor 200m file originally of this 12 months, clocking 22.60 on the Razorback Invitational in Arkansas. The file was beforehand held by Katharine Merry with 22.83 from 1999, earlier than Anning was born. 

The College of Arkansas pupil was a part of the ‘Razorbacks’ line up that grabbed 4x400m gold final 12 months – alongside Joanna Reid, Rosey Effiong and Britton Wilson – which obliterated the NCAA file with 3:21.75. 

Amber Anning (Arkansas)

Anning is ready to compete in each 200m and 400m this weekend – holding the quickest time in each fields. 

Anning’s team-mate Jack Turner will even compete this weekend within the heptathlon. The 22-year-old turned the second British man to ever break 6000 factors within the indoor heptathlon originally of this 12 months and he would have been eligible to compete on the World Indoor Championships however has as an alternative targeted on the NCAA occasion.

Different British contenders embrace 800m athlete Finley Mclear, who’s presently No.3 on the UK males’s 800m rankings this 12 months. Phoebe Anderson will compete within the 5000m, the place NCAA cross-country champion Parker Valby will goal to additional enhance her NCAA indoor file. 

Yemi Mary John (World Athletics)

Yemi Mary John, reigning European under-23 400m champion and a member of the British 4x400m crew that completed fifth on the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade, will go head-to-head with Anning within the 400m. 

Within the weight throw, Ruben Banks and Kenny Ikeji will compete within the males’s class, whereas Tara Simpson-Sullivan and Amber Simpson throw within the girls’s occasion.

Kenny Ikeji (Harvard)

Within the area, Funminiyi Olajide, presently topping the UK indoor rankings this 12 months, leads the Brits within the girls’s lengthy leap whereas Temi Ojora and Daniel Falode will compete within the triple leap. 

Elsewhere Shannon Flockhart will participate within the one mile run and the 1200m phase of the ladies’s distance medley. The distinctive relay occasion options 4 athletes competing over consecutive legs of 1200m, 400m, 800m and 1600m.  

For followers within the UK the occasion kicks off Thursday night time (March 7) with the burden throws at 11pm. The championships proceed Friday 2.30pm-2am and Saturday 3.30pm-1.20am (GMT).

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