2024 Drake Relays Schedule Introduced, Together with 16 Silver Degree Occasions
DES MOINES, Iowa – The Paris Olympics are simply 4 months away, and the Drake Relays, offered by Xtream powered by Mediacom, has introduced a document 16 occasions for potential Olympians, together with a brand new ‘Thursday Night time Throwdown’ competitors for each women and men. The 114th Drake Relays, offered by Xtream, will once more be an unique Silver Degree occasion on the World Athletics Continental Tour, making America’s Athletic Basic one of many high monitor and area meets on the earth for elite athletes hoping to compete in Paris this summer time.
“With extra elite occasions than ever, our 114th version will appeal to much more of the world’s most interesting monitor and area athletes,” stated Blake Boldon, the Franklin P. Johnson Director of the Drake Relays. “That’s a testomony to our hard-working officers and volunteers and the devoted followers who make these world-class athletes really feel so particular and welcome right here in Des Moines.”
Thursday Night time Throwdown, new this yr, will characteristic a few of the world’s greatest opponents within the javelin and hammer throws. There will likely be a males’s area and a girls’s area for every occasion. The hammer throw was highlighted in 2023, however 2024 marks the primary yr that the lads’s and girls’s javelin will likely be a part of the World Athletics Continental Tour in Des Moines.
“When folks consider Thursday evening on the Drake Relays, they consider unimaginable distance performances and the shifting rhythm of the Isiserettes,” Boldon stated. “That custom continues in 2024, and with our new ‘Thursday Night time Throwdown, ’ our followers will get to see most of the world’s greatest compete in these highly effective and uniquely demanding disciplines.”
In the present day, your complete schedule for the 114th Drake Relays was launched.
Relays followers ought to word:
- Along with 16 occasions on the World Athletics Continental Tour, Invitational sections return in every College/School area occasion to focus on high collegiate athletes.
- As a part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Silver Degree competitors, the Distance Carnival will likely be expanded to incorporate “Thursday Night time Throwdown”, characteristic males’s and girls’s javelin and hammer throw competitions.
- The Friday session maintains the custom of the Masters 800 meters, alongside the crowning of champions within the College, School, and Excessive Faculty Divisions.
- Friday Night time on the Drake Relays will characteristic the ladies’s steeplechase for the second consecutive yr and 4 invitational College area occasions.
- Saturday will characteristic eleven World Athletics Continental Tour occasions together with dozens of Olympians, culminating with the crowning of three Relays Cup Champions, with the College Relays Cup, Excessive Faculty Relays Cup and new this yr, School Relays Cup.
- The Xtream Dash Collection, powered by Mediacom, returns, that includes Olympians in fan-favorite occasions, together with the 100m hurdles and 110m hurdles, in addition to collegiate stars within the males’s and girls’s 100 meters.
Extra keynotes for Relays Week:
- The 56th version of the Drake Highway Races will happen on Sunday, April 21, 2024, marking the official begin to Relays Week. With three distances obtainable—5k, 10k, and half marathon—there’s a race obtainable for all health ranges, and the primary six 2024 Drake Relays Champions will likely be topped. All finishers obtain a commemorative Drake Highway Races finishers medal, a premium attire merchandise, free admission to the Thursday evening Distance Carnival on the Drake Relays, and different advantages. Register at present at drakeroadraces.org.
- This yr, the historic half marathon, 10k, and 5k will likely be adopted that very same afternoon by the world-famous Lovely Bulldog competitors, with 30 bulldogs from throughout the area and nation vying for the title of ‘Most Lovely Bulldog’.
- The Drake Relays, offered by Xtream, will host a pole vault competitors (Vault at Jordan Creek) on the Heart Courtroom space of Jordan Creek City Heart in West Des Moines for the primary time since 2014 and can maintain a pole vault occasion outdoors of the Drake College campus for the primary time since 2019.
- There will likely be one other probability to see a World Document because the USATF 1-Mile Highway Championships closes out the Grand Blue Mile offered by Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Defend in downtown Des Moines on Tuesday, April 23. This marks the eighth consecutive yr that nationwide champions will likely be topped for each women and men on the 1-Mile Highway Championships in Des Moines.
- The Drake Relays Crew Shot Put Showcase debuted final yr and will likely be again inside historic Drake Fieldhouse on Wednesday, April 24 to be headlined as soon as once more by Drake Relays champion Ryan Crouser. In 2023, simply weeks after setting a brand new Drake Relays document of twenty-two.38m (73-5 ¼), Crouser established a brand new World Document of 23.56m (77-3 ¾). Each of those marks are in jeopardy when the two-time Olympic Champion returns to Des Moines in April.
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Within the coming weeks, we are going to share bulletins about confirmed elite athletes and essential particulars pertaining to all divisions of the occasion.
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