Nikki Hiltz After Earning A Silver Medal At The 2024 World Indoor Championships | Race Recap & Reflections
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
"We're here to medal. We worked so hard and no one worked harder than any of us. You just have to do it on the day. I think we all did it and it's so cool – obviously, it's indoors and sure there's an asterisk because it's not the Olympics or World Outdoor Champs, but it's a race when it matters. It's a championship. There are medals on the line and we are so competitive. We're going to run fearless. We're going to be like Hobbs Kessler, who is 20 years old and led that whole thing or Emily (Mackay) in her first world champs and she's like, 'F**k it. I'm just going to take the lead.' We're going to make bold moves. We're gonna be really hard to beat. And I think that's the momentum we're taking into outdoors. That's a statement we're making."
This is Nikki Hiltz's fifth time on the show. Our last interviews came after last summer’s World Championships in Budapest and also after they broke the U.S. outdoor mile record at the Monaco Diamond League. The hot streak has continued into 2024.
Last month, Hiltz won the U.S. Indoor Championships for the second consecutive season. And just this past weekend, they ran two personal bests at the World Indoor Championships to earn a silver medal in the 1500m final. Ethiopia’s Freweyi Hailu earned gold in 4:01.46. Hiltz came in less than a second behind her for the third-fastest indoor 1500m performance in U.S. history. Team New Balance Boston’s Emily Mackay finished third for bronze.
The U.S. had a super strong showing at the World Indoor Championships. We topped the medal table with 20 total medals. Seven of those medals came in middle distance events – including four in the 1500m between Hiltz, Mackay, Cole Hocker and Hobbs Kessler.
In this episode, Nikki recaps their whole trip to Glasgow, the learnings from another World Championship experience, the statement made by American middle distance runners and how their outlook shifts to the outdoor season now.
Read our recap of World Indoors here: https://citiusmag.com/articles/2024-world-indoor-championships-winners-losers
Host: Chris Chavez | @chris_j_chavez on Instagram
Guest: Nikki Hiltz | @nikkihiltz on Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Support for the City Smack Podcast comes from New Balance Running. I've been waiting a few |
| 0:04.9 | weeks to finally put this ad read together because I'm excited to share my review of |
| 0:09.6 | the New Balance SC Elite V4. It is the shoe that I wore to break three hours at the |
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| 0:19.9 | with a secret all-white prototype at the New York City Marathon and I came away from that race a bit bumed about my time but with zero issues on my feet no hot spots or blisters and my legs weren't as beat up So while I could have opted for any other shoe I stuck with the |
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| 0:44.9 | so you get more pop than the other previous versions. |
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| 0:56.0 | So if you're looking for a race day shoe, my recommendation right now is a new balance |
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| 1:28.0 | I'm Chris Chavez and this is my show where I get the chance to chat with some of the biggest names on the track, on the roads, |
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