The fourth World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting of the season will feature this prodigiously gifted 23-year-old in a race that also includes his equally talented training partner and contemporary, world 400 metres hurdles silver medallist Rai Benjamin.

These two produced their 400m outdoor bests while racing each other in 2019 - with Norman clocking 43.45 to go joint-fourth on the all-time list and Benjamin running 44.31 - and if they do the same indoors then the official world record of 44.75, set in 2005 by fellow American and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Kerron Clement, could be under threat.

According to Track and Field News, Norman’s 44.52 timing at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships was not ratified because of a lack of proper dope testing at the meeting.

Benjamin, meanwhile, has a best of 45.94 indoors - albeit on an oversized track - and won over 300m at the 2019 version of this event.

Boston’s Reggie Lewis Center - the usual venue for the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix - is currently serving as a mass vaccination site, so this year’s competition is being held without spectators at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island in New York City.

The presence of Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of The Bahamas, and 2017 world champion Phyllis Francis means the women’s 400m will also be a race to watch out for, with Miller-Uibo looking likely to break the personal best of 50.88 she set as an under-20 athlete in 2013 and perhaps head towards sub-50sec territory.

World 200m champion Noah Lyles and world 800m champion Donovan Brazier are among other leading names competing.

Lyles plans to run in the heats of the 60m, but not to race the final if he qualifies, instead running in the 200m.

The 60m features two other high-achieving home sprinters in Trayvon Bromell, the 2016 world indoor champion, and 2014 world indoor runner-up Marvin Bracy.

Brazier opens his 2021 season by seeking a victory at this meeting for the fifth year in a row. The American record-holder in 1min 44.22sec will be running on the same track where he set a 600m world best in 2019.

His 800m rivals will include Britain's Jamie Webb, a European indoor runner-up.

Like Lyles, world 400m hurdles silver medallist Sydney McLaughlin is also planning a range of activity.

She will start her afternoon in the 60m hurdles, an event she has not contested since she was 15, taking on world indoor champion Kendra Harrison and three-time world indoor medallist Tiffany Porter.

A little less than two hours after the sprint hurdles, McLaughlin will line up for the 500m, the final race of the meeting.

The men's 1500m also looks highly competitive with the likes of two-time Olympic medallist Nick Willis of New Zealand and Britain’s European bronze medallist Jake Wightman featuring.

World indoor pole vault champion Sandi Morris, who has topped the 2021 world rankings with marks of 4.81 metres and 4.88m in her previous two competitions, will seek to build on that momentum when she faces Canada’s Commonwealth champion Alysha Newman.