STATEN ISLAND -- With Boston’s Reggie Lewis Center, the usual venue for New Balance Indoor Grand Prix, serving as a mass vaccination site, this year’s U.S. stop on the World Athletics Indoor Tour was held at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island in New York City. Elle Purrier, Donavan Brazier and Bryce Hoppel dominated their respective races en route to new American records. Strict covid-19 protocols were in place and no spectators in attendance at Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex. The replay is now available on-demand on NBC’s Peacock TV. One year after smashing the American indoor record in the women’s mile, Elle Purrier (Montgomery, Vermont) demolished Jenny Simpson’s two-mile American record with a 9:10.28*, clipping more than eight seconds off Simpson’s mark and moving to third on the all-time world list. Purrier and Emma Coburn (Crested Butte, Colorado) ran together through the mile at around 4:42, and were virtually inseparable with a half-mile remaining. Purrier started to move away and stretched the gap to more than a second before polishing off her record run with a 63.98 final quarter. Her en route 3,000m clocking of 8:36.41 makes her No. 5 on the all-time U.S. performer list. Coburn was also better than Simpson’s record, finishing second in 9:15.71 to take over the No. 8 position on the world all-time performer list. She moved to seventh on the U.S. 3,000m list all-time with an 8:39.19 en route. Returning to the track where he set a world indoor best in the 600m two years ago, Donavan Brazier (Cadillac, Michigan) broke his own American record* in the men’s 800m by the slimmest of margins, stopping the clock at 1:44.21 to take .01 off the mark he set last year. Brazier’s time put him in a tie for No. 4 on the all-time world performer list, and was enough to win by more than two seconds. Already the fastest man in the world over 800m this season, Bryce Hoppel (Midland, Texas) claimed his first American record* with a 2:16.27 in the 1,000m, cutting .49 off the existing AR set by David Torrence in 2014. Hoppel led through 600m in 1:23.24, then hit 800m in 1:49.74 before closing in 26.53 to move to No. 8 on the all-time world performer list. Canada’s Marco Arop was second in 2:17.10, just ahead of a British national record 2:17.20 for Charlie Da’Vall Grice in third. In field event action, two-time NCAA Indoor high jump champion Trey Culver (Lubbock, Texas) had his best outing since 2018, matching his lifetime best with a world-leading 2.33m/7-7.75. Season bests went to Jeron Robinson (Angleton, Texas) at 2.25m/7-4.5 and Erik Kynard (Toledo, Ohio). Sandi Morris (Fayetteville, Arkansas) won the women’s pole vault, clearing 4.60m/15-1 on her third attempt. Canada’s Justyn Knight stayed near the lead throughout the men’s 2 mile, with Eric Jenkins (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) just ahead of him at the halfway point. Knight, the former Syracuse star, pushed past Jenkins with two laps to go, pulling Joe Klecker (Minnetonka, Minnesota) and Morgan McDonald of Australia with him. Knight covered the final 400m in 54.96 to win in 8:13.92, with Klecker outsprinting McDonald to take second in 8:14.20 and move to No. 6 on the all-time U.S. performer list. Jenkins moved to No. 10 on that list with his 8:19.54 in fifth. Biding her time until there was 150m to go, Heather MacLean (Peabody, Massachusetts) sprinted past Cory McGee (Fairfax, Virginia) and ran on to win the women’s 1,500m in a U.S.-leading 4:06.32, with McGee second in 4:07.21. McGee led the field through 400m in 66.56 and through 800m in 2:14.00. At 1,200m, she held a .28 margin over MacLean, but wasn’t able to maintain that lead as MacLean covered the final 300m in 46.83. Outdoor sprint hurdles world record holder Keni Harrison (Clayton, North Carolina) wasn’t the fastest out of the blocks in the women’s 60m hurdles, but she made up for that with a speedy transit over the final four barriers to win with a world-leading 7.82. Britain’s Tiffany Porter and Gabrielle Cunningham (Charlotte, North Carolina) of the U.S. had the same time of 7.89, with Porter getting the nod for second by .005 over Cunningham’s lifetime best. In her first race since she won the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships last February, Ajee’ Wilson (Neptune Township, New Jersey) busted the rust and outran Kaela Edwards (Aurora, Colorado) off the final turn to win the women’s 800m in 2:01.79. Edwards, who led through the 600m in 1:32.40, was runner-up at 2:02.17. Keeping Lynna Irby (Indianapolis, Indiana) on her outside in sight throughout the lap and a half of the women’s 300m, Gabby Thomas (Florence, Massachusetts) rocketed off the final bend and just missed the American record with a 35.73 that puts her atop the world list for 2021 and at No. 5 on the world all-time list. Irby had a lifetime best 35.99 in second to move to No. 4 on the all-time U.S. indoor list. 2017 World Championships 200m bronze medalist Jereem Richards of Trinidad stepped up a distance to win the men’s 300m in 32.71. Kahmari Montgomery (Plainfield, Illinois) was the top American, taking third in 32.96. A false start removed heat winner Aleia Hobbs (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), who had tied for the U.S. lead with a 7.10, from the final of the women’s 60m, opening the door for Kayla White (Greensboro, North Carolina) to zip to a lifetime best 7.15 for the win. A trio of Commonwealth rivals produced the fastest men’s indoor 1,500m race on American soil, led by Australia’s Oliver Hoare, who won in a national record 3:32.35, the second-fastest time in the world this year and No. 7 on the all-time world performer list. Britain’s Jake Wightman couldn’t match Hoare’s finishing speed, but claimed second in 3:34.48, while third went to New Zealand’s Sam Tanner in a national record 3:34.72. Sam Prakel (Versailles, Ohio) was the leading U.S. finisher, placing fourth in a personal best 3:36.36, the fastest by an American this year. Reigning Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas was never challenged in her specialty, romping to a national record and world-leading 50.21. 2019 World Championships fourth-placer and relay gold medalist Wadeline Jonathas (Columbia, South Carolina) had a season best 51.95 in second. Turning on the jets over the final 30m, Trayvon Bromell (St. Petersburg, Florida) easily won the men’s 60m in 6.50, the second-fastest time in the world this year behind only his 6.48 two weeks ago at Fayetteville. Bromell was sixth early in the race, but revved up from that point and won by .15 over Demek Kemp (Monroe, Georgia), who won the USATF Indoor title on this track in 2019. World outdoor 200m champion Noah Lyles (Alexandria, Virginia) made a rare appearance at the distance indoors, running and winning his first race on the boards since 2017 with a 20.80 ahead of Trinidad’s 400m specialist, Deon Lendore. Roommates Michael Norman (Murrietta, California) and Rai Benjamin (Mount Vernon, New York), who moonlighted as short sprinters during last year’s abbreviated outdoor campaign, were side by side at the halfway point in the men’s 400m, but Norman outleaned his training partner to win in 45.34, .05 in front of Benjamin’s lifetime indoor best. Complete results can be found at results.nbindoorgrandprix.com. Follow USATF on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and TikTok. *pending ratification