The Friday night time addition to the Nike Pre Traditional has been a worthy night time of monitor and discipline for the previous decade now. I recall seeing Mo Farah in 2011 win the large 10,000m, and Kenenisa Bekele operating the ten,000m one other 12 months. The Friday night time occasion in 2022 may have 3 world file makes an attempt: Joshua Cheptegai on the 5,000m, Francine Nyongambo at 2 miles and Letsenbet Gidey on the hour run!
Tickets went on sale March 25!
Do not miss the 2022 Nike Pre Traditional, again at Hayward Discipline and again to the top of Might!
Joshua Cheptegai, 2021 Nike Pre Traditional, photograph by Diamond League AG
Athing Mu, photograph by Diamond League AG
Three World Document Makes an attempt, Olympic Champions Mondo Duplantis and Athing Mu Spotlight Prefontaine Traditional Ticket On-Sale Announcement
EUGENE, Ore. – Steve Prefontaine was no stranger to information. The Prefontaine Traditional, the occasion that bears his title, can also be no stranger to information. The 2022 version of the premier monitor and discipline meet in the US appears to proceed that custom in an enormous manner.
On Friday, Might 27, all are invited to “Celebration on the Pre” and watch three world file makes an attempt beneath the lights at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon.
Olympic gold medalist Joshua Cheptegei has introduced he’ll take a run at his 5,000-meter world file of 12:35.36. This try comes 50 years after Prefontaine set the American file on the 1972 Olympic Trials.
World information may even be tried by Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba within the girls’s two mile (8:58.58) and Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist Letesenbet Gidey within the girls’s one hour run (18,930m).
The lads’s and ladies’s USATF 10,000m Championships, which can function the choice occasion for the U.S. workforce for the World Athletics Championships Oregon22, may even be hosted on Friday night time.
On Saturday, Might 28, Hayward Discipline will host a band of Olympic medalists and record-holders on the monitor and within the discipline.
Center-distance royalty will toe the road within the girls’s 800 meters as all three members of Crew USA from the Tokyo Olympic Video games will race. Olympic Champion Athing Mu, who broke the American file eventually 12 months’s Pre Traditional, highlights a discipline that features Olympic bronze medalist Raevyn Rogers, World Championship bronze medalist Ajee Wilson, Olympic silver medalist Keely Hodgkinson, reigning World Champion Halimah Nakaayi, Natoya Goule and Kate Grace.
The powerhouses of pole vaulting will take flight in entrance of a particular pole vault fan part. Mondo Duplantis, the Olympic Champion and World record-holder, will soar in opposition to a discipline that features the American record-holders, Chris Nilsen (indoor) and Sam Kendricks (outside), Olympic bronze medalist Thiago Braz, Renaud Lavillenie, and KC Lightfoot.
For the primary time on the Pre, pole vault fanatics are being invited to sit down in The Touchdown Pad, a brand new pole vault fan expertise that features tickets, restricted version giveaway objects and unique entry to distinctive interactions with the vaulters. Followers can register to affix The Touchdown Pad here.
Tickets for the 47th version of The Prefontaine Traditional will go on sale to the general public on Friday, March 25 at 9 a.m. Pacific time.
The meet will probably be held Might 27-28 at Hayward Field. This 12 months it should function the third cease on the Wanda Diamond League circuit.
Single-day tickets will probably be obtainable for Friday and Saturday, together with reserved seating and basic admission areas. Clients will be capable to choose their reserved seat on the time of buy. A stadium seating map for Friday will be seen here. One for Saturday will be seen here.
Friday: Might 27, 2022
- Zone 1: End Line Seating ($35)
- Zone 2: Dwelling Stretch Seating ($25)
- Zone 3: Basic Admission ($15)
Saturday: Might 28, 2022
- Zone 1: End Line Seating ($140)
- Zone 2: Dwelling Stretch Seating ($95)
- Zone 3: Decrease Bowl South/East Seating ($75)
- Zone 4: Basic Admission ($35)
Starting March 25, clients can buy tickets on-line at PreClassic.com, by calling 1-800-WEBFOOT (1-800-932-3668), or in particular person on the College of Oregon Athletics ticket workplace on the Moshofsky Middle ticket workplace contained in the Autzen Complicated (2727 Leo Harris Parkway, Eugene, OR 97401).
About The Prefontaine Traditional
The Prefontaine Traditional is the premier monitor and discipline meet in the US. Since its inception in 1975, the meet has been a fixture within the world monitor and discipline calendar, incomes a fame for bringing the world’s greatest athletes to Hayward Discipline on the College of Oregon. The meet is known as after Steve Prefontaine and serves as a “dwelling memorial to Pre” (Invoice Bowerman, June 1, 1975). The Pre Traditional is a member of the Wanda Diamond League circuit and has been sponsored by Nike since 1978.
