Track and field fans are set for a thrilling showdown as Kishane Thompson prepares for 2025 season opener this weekend.
Track and field fans have a reason to rejoice as Kishane Thompson is scheduled to kickstart his 2024 season with a 60m race this weekend.
Thompson had earlier been scheduled to race for the first time in 2025 at the Astana Indoor Meet, the first World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of 2025, on January 25 but his fans will get a chance to see him race earlier.
The Olympic 100m silver medallist has been confirmed for the Central Hurdles, Relays & Field Events Meet on Saturday, January 18 at the G. C. Foster College in Jamaica.
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Thompson will race over the 60m against some of his teammates from the MVP Track Club and University Students from various institutions in Jamaica.
Some of the formidable names that will be lining up against Kishane Thompson include Demar Sayles, Kasheem Green, Micheal Campbell and Rohan Watson.
Last season was quite mixed for the Jamaican sprint king who after winning a silver in the men’s 100m at the Paris Olympic Games was forced to withdraw from a series of meets due to an injury setback.
It was also the year he donned the Jamaican jersey on the global stage and he admitted that inexperience cost him a win. He finished milliseconds behind Noah Lyles who carried the day at the Stade de France. They both clocked 9.79 seconds.
“To be honest, I was excited nervous and not nervous in the sense that I didn’t believe in myself. I was nervous and excited to go but I stopped being focused and patient with myself at some point in the race,” Thompson said in an interview after the Olympics.
“It’s just not that I didn’t win the gold, but I didn’t better myself, in a sense, because I really wanted to better myself. I didn’t trust myself enough to take me to the end.”
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The three-time world champion insists that Elaine Thompson-Herah and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce still have plenty more to offer the world.
He now eyes a better 2025 as he looks to kick off his season on home soil. Others who will be competing in the 60m include Tina and Tia Clayton, Natasha Morrison and Serena Cole.
