OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST RYAN CROUSER TO ATTEMPT NEW INDOOR WORLD RECORD AT SIMPLOT GAMES SHOT PUT EXHIBITION EVENT

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST RYAN CROUSER TO ATTEMPT NEW INDOOR WORLD RECORD AT SIMPLOT GAMES SHOT PUT EXHIBITION EVENT

Crouser Aiming For New Holt Arena Record and Indoor World Record 

Pocatello, Idaho – Decorated Olympian and world record holder Ryan Crouser will compete in a shot put exhibition event Saturday, February 18 at noon inside Holt Arena. The event is free to the public. Crouser will compete against five Idaho State University athletes and attempt to set a new indoor shot put world record.

Crouser spoke to attendees of the Simplot Games’ Breakfast with Fosbury and Friends Friday morning. During the breakfast, Crouser spoke on his career and his desire to break the indoor shot put world record on Saturday inside Holt Arena, which he currently holds. He set the record of 74’10.5” in January 2021, breaking a world record that had been held for over 31 years.

“I’m going into Saturday with the goal to set the indoor World Record,” Crouser said. “The shot put is a high energy event. The louder it is in the arena, the better.”

Speaking of the arena, the current shot put record inside Holt Arena is 69’4.75.” That record was set in 1975 and at the time, was the current World Record.

Crouser is the 2016 and 2020 Olympic shot put gold medalist and current World- and Olympic-record holder. This will not be his first attempt at setting a record in Holt Arena. He is also an alumnus of Simplot Games, where he set the national high school indoor shot put record in 2011.

More than 2,000 athletes from across the U.S., Canada, and Australia are participating in the 43rd Simplot Games. Simplot Games remains the nation’s premier high school indoor track and field event. Sponsored by the J.R. Simplot Company since 1979, the Simplot Games are held at Idaho State University’s Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho.

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