USA Track & Field has announced an exciting six-event schedule for the 2024 Journey to Gold series set to kick off at the end of April. The series features high level domestic and international competition culminating with a chance to make the world’s number one track and field team at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field. The Journey to Gold series kicks off with the USATF Bermuda Grand Prix on April 28 at the Bermuda National Sports Complex in Devonshire. The sprint-heavy competition is set to feature the men’s and women’s 100, 200, 400, and 110/100 hurdles as well as the men’s 1500, women’s 800, men’s and women’s long jump, and men’s triple jump. Just under a week later, throwers will take center stage at the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson at the University of Arizona’s Drachman Stadium on May 4. The festival will feature top talent in the throws and vertical jumps, will men’s and women’s fields set to compete in the shot put, discus, hammer, javelin, pole vault, and high jump. Kicking off an exciting weekend of track and field in Los Angeles, the USATF Distance Classic will have all eyes on the oval at UCLA’s Drake Stadium on May 17. Men’s and women’s events are to be contested in the 800, 1500, 3000 steeplechase, 5000, hammer and discus, with a men’s field competing in the pole vault. The following day, the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix will return for its second year at UCLA, featuring the men’s and women’s 100, 400, 1500, and 400 hurdles, men’s 5000 and shot put, and women’s 200, 800, triple jump, and pole vault. The series will move up the west coast for the Nike Prefontaine Classic on May 25 at Hayward Field in Eugene. As the only Diamond League stop in the U.S., the Prefontaine Classic will feature star-studded start lists. Diamond League events to be contested include the men’s 100, 200, Bowerman Mile, 110 hurdles, 400 hurdles, and shot put, and the women’s 100, 800, 1500, 3000 steeplechase, 5000, pole vault, triple jump, and discus. The penultimate stop in the series takes place at Icahn Stadium in New York City at the USATF NYC Grand Prix. Set for June 9, the big apple will host bigger stars in the men’s and women’s 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, 110/100 hurdles, 400 hurdles, high jump, discus, hammer, and javelin, the men’s triple jump, and the women’s shot put. Capping off the six-event Journey to Gold series is one of the biggest sporting events on U.S. soil - the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Track & Field. From June 21 - 30, athletes from across the country will compete for spot on Team USA’s roster for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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