Another half dozen 2005 World Championships medalists have been
added to the field for the 11th annual Reebok Boston Indoor Games,
organizers announced Tuesday. They join three reigning World
Champions - Tirunesh Dibaba, Lauryn Williams and Adam Nelson -
already scheduled to compete.The first stop on USATF's 2005 Visa Championship Series, the Reebok
Boston Indoor Games will be televised January 29 from 3-4:30 p.m.
Eastern Time on ESPN2.
Making the trip to Boston for the event, set for Jan. 28, will be Americans
Bershawn Jackson, the 400-meter hurdles World Champion; Andrew
Rock, a double World Champs medalist (400m silver, 4x400m gold);
and Chaunte Howard, the high jump silver medalist. Also set to compete
are 2005 Visa Champion Angela Daigle-Bowen, 2005 USA 100m
champion Me'Lisa Barber and 2004 Olympian Muna Lee, who along
with Williams made up the entire USA gold-medalist 4x100m relay team
at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki.
Headlining the boys' elite, international Junior Invitational Mile will be
A.J. Acosta of Oceanside, Calif., the 2005 Foot Locker Cross Country
Champion.
They bolster a star-studded roster for this year's Reebok Boston Indoor
Games that includes at least 29 Olympic and World Championships
medalists, highlighted by four reigning individual World Champions.
Over the past decade, the Reebok Boston Indoor Games, produced by
Boston-based Global Athletics & Marketing, Inc., has played host to 89
Olympic and World Championship medalists, and has been the site of
four World Records and eight American Records. For the past three
years, the event has been sold out.
The 11th-annual Reebok Boston Indoor Games, the first stop in the
VisaChampionship Series, will be held at the Reggie Lewis Track and
Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College, 1350 Tremont St., from
5:30 to 8 p.m. on Jan. 28, and will be broadcast Jan. 29 on ESPN2 from
3-4:30 p.m. Tickets and information are now available on-line at
www.BostonIndoorGames.com or by calling 1-866-GO-BIG06.