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- Jamaicas 2011 World 100m champion Yohan Blake and USAs 2000 Olympic 100m championMaurice Greene are among the star athletes past and present who will gather in the heart ofNew York City on Wednesday 11 June to support a demonstration of IAAF / Nestlé Kids Athletics.
Blake, the second fastest 100m runner of all-time, and Greene, who took three World titles at 100m and one at 200m and is the 6th fastest ever sprinter,will be in Herald Square on Broadway to help support the fun team event for school children of 9-10 years.
The kids, from local schools in New York, will be split into 6 teams and take part in a competition of about 70 minutes. This series of 7 fun activities (2 x jump;2 x run; 2 x throw; 1 x endurance) cover the core skills of athletics, run, jump, throw.
Joining Blake and Greene as team captains will be fellow star athletes USAs 2012 Olympic pole vault championJenn Suhr and Australias Sally Pearson*, the 2011 World and 2012 Olympic 100m hurdles champion.
Greek pole vaulter Ekaterini Stefanidi,who appropriately for this event is a former World Youth champion, and Jamaicas World and Olympic sprint medallistWarren Weir are also captains.Herald Square, located between 34th and 35th streets, one block from the Empire State Building, will be the setting for an afternoon of trackand field street action.
Suhr will be especially busy as the afternoons proceedings begin with a womens pole vault featuring the London 2012 Olympic Games champion. Approximately two hourslater IAAF / Nestlé Kids Athletics will commence.
IAAF / Nestlé Kids Athletics demonstration is one of the lead-in promotions to theadidas Grand Prix, the sixth leg of the 2014 IAAF Diamond League which takes place on Saturday 14 June in Icahn Stadium, Randall's Island, New York.
IAAF Kids Athletics | Nestlé Healthy Kids, the flagship development project of the IAAFs School / Youthprogramme, is one of the biggest grassroots development programmes in the world of sports.
The International Olympic Committee highlights IAAF / Nestlé Kids Athletics as a case study example of good practice for other international federations
Nestlé, which is the worlds leading nutrition, health and wellness company with 339,000 employees worldwide,
became the main sponsor of Kids Athletics in January 2012 agreeing a five-year sponsorship with the IAAF.
The IAAFs objectives for Kids Athletics, which has so far been activated in more than 130 of the IAAFs 212 national Member Federations worldwide, are to make athleticsthe number one participation sport in schools, promoting a balanced and healthy lifestyle, and attracting the potential sports stars of tomorrow.
For further information:
http://www.iaaf.org/development/school-youth
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