Athletics comes to Netflix with the new series SPRINT | PRESS RELEASES

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After months of anticipation, the first season of SPRINT hits theaters worldwide today (July 2) when the six-part documentary series officially launches worldwide on Netflix.

Created by the team behind Drive to survive, SPRINT follows the lives of elite athletes like Sha’Carri Richardson, Noah Lyles, Marcell Jacobs and Shericka Jackson as they navigate the rollercoaster ride to becoming the fastest sprinters of all time. It shines a spotlight on their lives – on and off the track – like never before.

The series delves deep into the relationships, rivalries, highs and lows behind the race for the world title in the 100 and 200 meters and offers unique insights into the exciting world of sprinting, where every millisecond counts.

The series takes viewers around the world on a journey to the sport’s most important one-day competition – the Wanda Diamond League – where athletes compete for the highlight of the 2023 season: the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23.

The series reveals a previously unknown side of their remarkable routes to Budapest and, as the athletes now prepare for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris:

• Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the Jamaican sprinter who secured her place for her fifth Olympic Games just last weekend
• Zharnel Hughes, the British record holder, trained by Usain Bolt’s former coach Glen Mills
• Shericka Jackson, the second fastest 200-meter sprinter in history, who recently defended her Jamaican titles in the 100 and 200 meters
• Marcell Jacobs, the Italian record holder chasing his second consecutive Olympic victory in the 100 m
• Fred Kerley, the 2022 100m world champion, who wants to top his Olympic silver from Tokyo in Paris
• Noah Lyles, the five-time world champion who ran a 100-meter and 200-meter double at the recent U.S. Olympic team trials
• Sha’Carri Richardson, the 100m world champion who stormed to the US title in Eugene in a world-best time
• Gabby Thomas, the recent US 200m champion and the fastest woman in the discipline this year
• Elaine Thompson-Herah, Jamaica’s five-time Olympic champion

Athletics legends Usain Bolt, Allyson Felix, Ato Boldon and Michael Johnson, who together have won a total of 73 medals at the Olympic Games and World Athletics Championships, offer unique insights into the exclusive world of sprinting at international level.

Usain Bolt at SPRINT (© Netflix)

The six episodes are:

1. Heir to the throne
2. Queens
3. Affiliation
4. Trials and Tribulations
5. The gold standard
6. The double lives

Many of the stars of SPRINT have already made their mark this season and the new series shows how they got here. Fresh from the national championships and with an eye on the Games in Paris, the story continues over the next few weeks as the athletes try to prove their skills in the battle for glory in the No. 1 Olympic sport. Against all odds. Against uncertainty. Against the world.

Lyles has already been announced for the 200m at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Monaco on July 12 and the 100m at the meeting in London eight days later. Some of the world’s biggest names will also clash in the women’s 100m in Monaco and the women’s 200m in London before athletics at the Olympic Games begins on August 1.

“Being a track and field athlete requires a different mindset,” Lyles explains. “If you don’t have the energy of a main character, track and field isn’t for you.”

The only question that remains is: “Who wants it more?” Find out more at SPRINT.

Learn more about SPRINT and its stars on our special website.