FOR FISHER, PARIS OLYMPIC MEDALS LEAVE HIM HUNGRY FOR MORE
By David Monti, @d9monti
(c) 2025 Race Results Weekly, all rights reserved – Used with permission.
BOSTON (01-Feb) — Leaving Paris last August with bronze medals in both the 5000m and 10,000m, Grant Fisher was equal parts exhilarated and exhausted. The 27 year-old Nike-sponsored athlete had fulfilled his life-long dream to become an Olympic medalist, but he needed time to process what had happened and prepare himself for another grueling year of training and racing. In 2025 he not only hopes to medal at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, but will also be competing in the new Grand Slam Track series which will claim him for four weekends beginning in early April.
“Paris, that was a dream come true,” Fisher told reporters at a press conference today.  “The dream came true twice. Afterwards I was completely fried. I was mentally, emotionally just cooked. There’s so much built into an Olympic year that afterwards, whether it goes well or it goes poorly, you’re just so, so tired. So I took a long break.”
Fisher, with his coach Mike Scannell, have carefully constructed their 2025 program which begins here with the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix tomorrow. Fisher will step down to the 1500m which he hopes will not only bust his winter “rust” but also allow him to work on his racing skills.
“We’re coming through quick,” Fisher said, after today’s press conference moderator Geoff Wightman told him that the pacemaker would be going through 800 meters in about 1:53. Â “I’m going to get the legs moving a little bit and see if I can wind it up with these guys.”
“These guys” include 2022 world 1500m champion Jake Wightman of Great Britain, 2022 Commonwealth Games 1500m gold medalist Oliver Hoare of Australia, and American 1000m record holder Josh Hoey (whose brother Jonah will be pacing the race). Fisher only ran one race after last summer’s Olympics, then called it a season. After months of rebuilding his base, tomorrow’s race should provide a pleasant jolt to his system, and perhaps a personal best. His fastest-ever 1500m is the 3:34.90 he ran last June in New York (he’s run nearly as fast indoors –3:34.99– in Madrid two years ago). He said he is ready.
“My training has been really, really strong,” said Fisher.  “I like where I’m at. Tomorrow will be a really good test of where the legs are. This isn’t my marquee event by any means, but I want to compete and I…
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