ISTAF Berlin 2024 stages Olympic Games’ follow-up

BERLIN. Olympic feeling at ISTAF 2024: five Olympic champions, a total of 13 medal winners from Paris and numerous other fan favorites will be competing in Berlin’s Olympic Stadium on Sunday, September 1.

Germany’s biggest athletics event also promises plenty of goosebump moments, emotional farewells and exciting premieres. More than 35,000 fans are expected. The ISTAF will be broadcasted on TV in more than 100 countries.

Tickets for the ISTAF are available at www.tickets.istaf.de. 

At ISTAF, fans will experience thrilling competitions with numerous Paris protagonists in just one afternoon: Decathlon silver medalist Leo Neugebauer and former world champion Niklas Kaul in the new ISTAF triathlon, Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye in the shot put, Olympic champion Grant Holloway (USA) over the 110 meter hurdles, silver medalist Sam Kendricks (USA) in the pole vault, Gina Lückenkemper, Lisa Mayer and Rebekka Haase, who together sensationally won Olympic bronze with the 4×100 meters relay, sprinting on the blue track. In the men’s 100 meters, two Canadian Olympic relay champions, Aaron Brown and Jerome Blake, will meet South Africa’s sprint star Akani Simbine.

Over the 400 meters, the fast field will be led by the Dutchman Isaya Klein Ikkink, who celebrated Olympic victory with the mixed relay team in Paris, and Britain’s Alex Haydock-Wilson, who won bronze in the same race and with the men’s 4×400 meters relay team. Lisanne de Witte, Olympic silver medalist and European champion with the Dutch 4×400 meters relay team, is good for a top time in the 400 meters race.

The great favorite to win the 600 meters race is Mary Moraa (24). The Kenyan won Olympic bronze in Paris (800 meters) and even World Championship gold in Budapest in 2023. 

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