Sprinter Zoe Hobbs (Ngāruahine) jets off to the United States this week, ready to return to competitive racing ahead of her Olympic debut in Paris next month.
The 26-year-old has been training in Tāmaki Makaurau the past three weeks after her opening international outdoor race of the season in Tokyo last month, where she put a first mark on the board, powering to victory in the women’s 100m in a time of 11.17s.
Hobbs will compete in the New York Grand Prix in the Big Apple on Monday (NZ time), before heading to Europe to continue her Olympic build-up.
Her first race in Europe will be in Poland on June 21 (local time) at the Irena Szenwinska Memorial.
Hobbs is the fastest New Zealand women’s 100m sprinter of all-time, with a personal best time of 10.96s set in Switzerland in July last year.