Some of the brightest stars in the track and field galaxy will take the stage Sunday in the breezy island paradise of Bermuda for the USATF Bermuda Grand Prix, offering fans a glimpse of what is to come this summer at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Topping the bill in the men's 100 is Noah Lyles, the gold medalist at last summer's World Athletics Championships in Budapest who also stood atop the podium in the 200 and 4x100 relay with his U.S. teammates. Lyles has lofty aspirations for Paris and certainly has the talent to make his dreams come true, bringing a lifetime best of 9.83 in the dash.
He was second at this meet last year in a wind-aided 9.80 and will face Canada's Aaron Brown, a 9.96 runner who has gold in the 4x100 from the 2022 World Championships. Also in the field will be Pjai Austin, who has a 9.89 PB, and 2022 USATF indoor 60 champion J.T. Smith. Lyles' brother, Josephus Lyles, has run 10.03 and was on the winning 4x100 here in 2023. Jamaica's Kadrian Goldson was the World University Games champion last year and has a PB of 9.94.
Continuing her comeback from injury and surgery, 2022 USATF 200 champion Abby Steiner has looked good in her two outings at 100 and 400 this year, clocking 11.05 and 51.58, and she will race at her specialty distance. She has a PB of 21.77 from that USATF victory two years ago and will be lining up against Jamaica's Ashanti Moore, a 22.49 performer who helped her nation to win the 4x100 at this meet last year and is opening her '24 campaign here. Doubling up in the 100 and 200, Tamari Davis has clocked 22.30 for the longer sprint and has sub-11 speed in the 100.
Donald Scott, who won nine indoor and outdoor USATF titles and was the World Indoor bronze medalist in 2022, will headline the men’s triple jump field. He’ll contend with Jamaican wunderkind Jaydon Hibbert, a precocious talent who smashed the world U20 record and won a pair of NCAA indoor and outdoor crowns while a freshman at Arkansas last year. Two-time Olympian and three-time World Championships team member Chris Benard is another American with impressive credentials, and he has a PB of 17.48. Local favorite Jah-Nhai Perinchief was the Commonwealth Games bronze medalist in 2022 after finishing fifth at the World Indoor Championships.
Coming off a pair of silver medals in the long jump and triple jump at the USATF Indoor Championships in February and a fifth-place finish in the triple jump at the World Indoor Championships, Jasmine Moore brings a 7.03 PB to the women's long jump. She was 10th at Budapest last August and will take on World Indoor silver medalist Monae' Nichols, a 6.97 jumper. Tiffany Flynn was the Pan American Games bronze medalist in '23 and finished fourth at the 2022 World Indoor Championships.
American youngster Elija Godwin will take on Grenada's Kirani James who has Olympic medals of all three colors, with gold coming in 2012, silver in 2016 and bronze in 2021. He added a World Championships gold in 2011, a silver in 2022, and a bronze in 2015, and has a PB of 43.74 from 2014. A 44.34 PB earned Godwin NCAA bronze in 2022 and he picked up World Championships gold in the 4x400 and bronze in the mixed 4x400 that summer. Just off the podium with a fourth-place finish at the 2019 World Championships, Jamaica's Demish Gaye set his PB of 44.46 PB and earned silver on his country's 4x400 at that meet.
Last year's Bermuda GP champion Tamari Davis won in 10.91 and has a PB of 10.83. Davis ran the leadoff leg on Team USATF's gold medal 4x100 at Budapest. Reigning Olympic Trials champion Javianne Oliver has run 10.95 in her career and ran the opening leg on the 4x100 at Tokyo to earn silver. Jamaica's Alana Reid won the Pan American U20 title last summer and has a best of 10.92.
One of the most decorated 4x400 women in American annals, Courtney Okolo is the best of the bunch in the women's 400, boasting a 49.71 PB from 2016 and relay golds from the Olympics, World Championships, World Indoor Championships and Pan American Games. Another former Texas Longhorn, Stacey-Ann Williams of Jamaica, has two World Championships 4x400 silvers and an Olympic bronze to her credit, and she set her PB of 50.12 last year. Puerto Rico's Gabby Scott won this event last year and set a national record with a 50.97 in '22.
Among the other top matchups will be Matthew Boling vs. Elijah Morrow in the men's 200. Boling was the NCAA indoor champion for Georgia in 2021 and 2023 and has run 19.92 outdoors, and he earned silver in the 4x400 at this year's World Indoor Championships after helping the U.S. to gold and a world record in the mixed 4x400 at Budapest in 2023. Morrow surprised a strong field here last year to win in a very windy 20.11, and his legal PB of 20.15 also came in '23. 2017 World Championships bronze medalist Jereem Richards of Trinidad also has a 400 gold from the 2022 World Indoor Championships, and he has run 19.80. Nigeria's Udodi Onwuzurike won the NCAA title for Stanford in '23 with a speedy 19.84 after going 19.76 in the semifinal.
Cassandra Tate was the women's 400 hurdles runner-up here in '23 and was the 2015 World Championships bronze medalist. She has a PB of 54.01 from 2015 and opened her season with a 55.60 to win in the Dominican Republic last weekend. One of the women she beat last year, Shiann Salmon of Jamaica, has a PB of 53.82 and was the 2022 NACAC champion.
On a hot streak in the sprint hurdles is Amber Hughes, who chopped her 100H PB to 12.61 two weeks ago and placed fifth in the 60H at the USATF Indoor Championships. Hughes notched an indoor PB of 7.92 in January at Astana, Kazakhstan. Leading the entries in the women's 800 is Sadi Henderson, bearer of a 1:58.62 PB. Louis Rollins was fourth in the men's 60 hurdles at the USATF Indoor Championships in February and has a 110H PB of 13.43.
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