Adidas Games

The Adidas Games, formerly the adidas BOOST Boston Games and today officially known as the adidas Atlanta City Games, is an annual track and field meeting and street meet in Atlanta, Georgia. The event was originally held in Boston, Massachusetts from 2016 to 2021, and it was relocated to the City of Atlanta in 2023. The event was announced on the same day the Adidas Grand Prix meet in New York was removed from the Diamond League schedule in 2016.^[1][2]

Adidas Games
Atlanta, where the street meet portion of the meeting is held since 2023
Date	May
Location	Atlanta, Georgia (formerly Boston, Massachusetts)
Event type	Track and field
Established	2016[1]
Official site

When the meet was held in Boston, the traditional track events were held in the Henry G. Steinbrenner Stadium on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while the street meet portion was held on an elevated straight track constructed between Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden.^[3] Currently, it is held in Piedmont Park (the finish line of the Peachtree Road Race, with junior events at Eddie S Henderson Stadium across the street.

The event has hosted several Olympic track and field athletes, including 400 m world record holder and Rio gold medalist Wayde van Niekerk in 2017.^[4]

Event records

Men

Track portion

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Ref
400 m	44.28	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	2017	[4]
800 m	1:45.18	Brandon McBride	Canada	20 May 2018	[5]
1500 m	3:35.82	Collins Cheboi	Kenya	2017	[4]
Mile	3:56.72	Drew Hunter	United States	20 May 2018	[6]
3000 m	7:45.64	Cyrus Rutto	Kenya	20 May 2018	[7]
5000 m	12:59.89	Dejen Gebremeskel	Ethiopia	2017	[4]
400 m hurdles	48.69	Michael Stigler	United States	2016	[8]

Street portion

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref
100 m	9.90 (-0.4 m/s)	Akani Simbine	South Africa	19 May 2024	Atlanta	[9]
150 m (straight)	14.41 (+0.3 m/s)	Noah Lyles	United States	18 May 2024	Atlanta	[10]
200 m (straight)	19.84	Wayde van Niekerk	South Africa	2016	Boston	[8]
600 m	1:15	Marco Arop	Canada	23 May 2021	Boston	[11]
Mile	4:01	Clayton Murphy	United States	23 May 2021	Boston	[11]
110 m hurdles	13.07 (-0.7 m/s)	Grant Holloway	United States	19 May 2024	Atlanta	[12]
200 m hurdles (straight)	21.85 (+1.5 m/s)	Alison dos Santos	Brazil	17 May 2025	Atlanta	[13]
Pole vault	5.83 m	Matt Ludwig	United States	17 May 2025	Atlanta	[14]
Long jump	8.33 m (+1.6 m/s)	Carey McLeod	Jamaica	17 May 2025	Atlanta	[15]

Women

Nikki Hiltz (left) and Dominique Scott (right) running the Back Bay Mile at the Adidas Boost Boston Games in 2019.

Track portion

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Ref
800 m	1:59.27	Ajeé Wilson	United States	20 May 2018	[16]
1500 m	4:04.65	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	20 May 2018	[17]
5000 m	15:55.24	Caroline Kipkirui	Kenya	20 May 2018	[6]

Street portion

Event	Record	Athlete	Nation	Date	Ref
100 m	10.88 (+0.5 m/s)	Aleia Hobbs	United States	19 May 2024	[18]
150 m (straight)	15.85 (+2.0 m/s)	Favour Ofili	Nigeria	17 May 2025	[19]
200 m (straight)	21.76 (+0.5 m/s)	Shaunae Miller-Uibo	Bahamas	4 June 2017	[20]
600 m	1:24	Natoya Goule	Jamaica	23 May 2021	[11]
Mile	4:31	Nikki Hiltz	United States	23 May 2021	[11]
100 m hurdles	12.49 (-0.9 m/s)	Kendra Harrison	United States	23 May 2021	[11]
200 m hurdles (straight)	24.86 (+0.1 m/s)	Shiann Salmon	Jamaica	23 May 2021	[11]
Long jump	7.17 m (+0.1 m/s)	Tara Davis-Woodhall	United States	19 May 2024	[21]

Notes