Some of the globe’s best monitor skilled athletes contend in a brand-new professional group that makes its launching as we speak.
Here are the answer to some of the frequently requested considerations relating to Grand Slam Track previous to its very first drop in Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday.
Why was this group developed?
Grand Slam Track is the creation of American dashing glorious,Michael Johnson The four-time Olympic champ and eight-time globe champ thinks that monitor has really had a bother acquiring its largest celebrities to contend versus one another exterior of the Olympic Games and globe champions.
Johnson, that’s moreover commissioner of the brand-new group, knowledgeable The Wall Street Journal in 2024 that the aim “is to provide that sort of head-to-head competition, that drama, the stakes, and tell those stories around all of that compelling drama as well – four times a year.”
Johnson entered into much more data relating to the ‘why’ of Grand Slam Track in a gathering with CBC Sports issue Morgan Campbell:
SEE|Johnson evaluations his brand-new skilled monitor group:
The four-time Olympic champ takes a seat with host Morgan Campbell merely days removed from the launching of the Grand Slam Track event in Kingston, Jamaica.
How is it varied than the Diamond League?
There are plenty of distinctions, but the main contrasts are:
- The number of events: Four Grand Slams versus 15 Diamond League quits
- Grand Slam Track stresses neck and neck matches in between the very same skilled athletes, the place Diamond League areas look considerably varied from give up to give up
- Prize money: Grand Slam people are paid a base value and contend for a a lot greater reward swimming pool (way more on that individual listed under)
- Runners contend in 2 varied races at every Grand Slam event
How does it perform?
As the identify could point out, the Grand Slam Track interval is opposed over 4 satisfies in 4 varied cities. A complete quantity of 96 skilled athletes will definitely contend– 48 males and 48 females.
With the beforehand talked about give attention to ‘neck and neck matches,’ half of these joggers (24 males and 24 females) have really devoted to run at each give up on the Grand Slam circuit. Those particular skilled athletes are known as ‘racers.’
The companion of the world, known as ‘oppositions,’ will definitely be picked on a per-Slam foundation. The necessities for the selection of oppositions thinks about present efficiencies {and professional} athletes that would definitely produce interesting matches.
All skilled athletes will definitely contend in amongst 6 event groups:
- Short sprints ( 100m, 200m)
- Long sprints ( 200m, 400m)
- Short difficulties ( 100m difficulties [women] / 110m difficulties [men], 100m stage [both])
- Long difficulties ( 400m difficulties, 400m stage)
- Short vary ( 800m, 1,500 m)
- Long vary ( 3,000 m, 5,000 m)
Each staff will definitely have its 8 skilled athletes run each varied events at every Grand Slam fulfill. Runners will definitely collect elements for his or her trigger every event, that are primarily based on a gliding vary:
- 1st: 12 elements
- second: 8 elements
- third: 6 elements
- fourth: 5 elements
- fifth: 4 elements
- sixth: 3 elements
- seventh: 2 elements
- eighth: 1 issue
The jogger with some of the collective elements from their 2 races at a Grand Slam is proclaimed the champion of their event staff and proclaimed a Slam champ.
By completion of the interval, each rivals that acquire some of the elements all through all Slams– one from the males’s groups and one from the females’s groups — will definitely be topped ‘Racer of the Year.’
Why exist no space events?
Johnson has really acknowledged that his group thinks that skilled athletes must have the wholehearted focus of these having fun with them contend. That implies one event directly, which appropriate in space events over the two-and-a-half hours of program time was not an alternate.
Who will contend?
Grand Slam Track flaunts some heavyweights which have really joined to be racers, consisting of ruling Olympic champs like Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ( females’s 400m difficulties), Gabby Thomas (females’s 200m), and Cole Hocker (males’s 1,500 m).
Men’s 100m sprinters Fred Kerley and Kenny Bednarek are moreover devoted to the 4 Grand Slam events.
Marco Arop is the only Canadian racer in Grand Slam Track, but it’s possible that much more Canadians will be picked to contend as oppositions, as Charles Philibert-Thiboutot is for the Kingston rivals.
Here’s a whole guidelines of the joggers that can definitely contend at each Grand Slam event:
Men’s racer lineup
Short sprints
- Kenny Bednarek, United States
- Zharnel Hughes, Great Britain
- Fred Kerley, United States
- Oblique Seville, Jamaica
Long sprints
- Quincy Hall, United States
- Matthew Hudson-Smith, Great Britain
- Jereem Richards, Trinidad and Tobago
- Muzala Samukonga, Zambia
Short difficulties
- Devon Allen, United States
- Freddie Crittenden, United States
- Daniel Roberts, United States
- Sasha Zhoya, France
Long difficulties
- Roshawn Clarke, Jamaica
- Caleb Dean, United States
- Alison dos Santos, Brazil
- Cl ément Ducos, France
Short vary
- Marco Arop, Canada
- Josh Kerr, Great Britain
- Cole Hocker, United States
- Yared Nuguse, United States
Long vary
- Grant Fisher, United States
- Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopia
- Luis Grijalva, Guatemala
- Ronald Kwemoi, Kenya
Women’s racer lineup
Short sprints
- Brittany Brown, United States
- Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, United States
- Daryll Neita, Great Britain
- Gabby Thomas, United States
Long sprints
- Salwa Eid Nasser, Bahrain
- Alexis Holmes, United States
- Marileidy Paulinho, Dominican Republic
- Nickisha Pryce, Jamaica
Short difficulties
- Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Puerto Rico
- Ackera Nugent, Jamaica
- Masai Russell, United States
- Cyr éna Samba-Mayela, France
Long difficulties
- Rushell Clayton, Jamaica
- Jasmine Jones, United States
- Shamier Little, United States
- Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, United States
Short vary
- Nikki Hiltz, United States
- Jess Hull, Australia
- Mary Moraa, Kenya
- Diribe Welteji, Ethiopia
Long vary
- Elise Cranny, United States
- Tsige Gebreselama, Ethiopia
- Agnes Negtich, Kenya
- Nozomi Tanaka, Japan
What’s on the road?
Racers finishing in Grand Slam Track events get a yearly base cost to contend in all 4 Slams, whereas oppositions acquire a per-Slam value.
Both groups will definitely moreover contend for a share of the $12.6 M United States full reward swimming pool.
The full cost for each of the event groups, per Slam, is as adheres to:
- 1st: $100,000
- second: $50,000
- third: $30,000
- fourth: $25,000
- fifth: $20,000
- sixth: $15,000
- seventh: $12,500
- eighth: $10,000
If one racer was to win every of their Grand Slam events, they would definitely depart with $400,000 in money prize.
SEE |Track’s brand-new skilled group, the Grand Slam of Track, mentioned:
Four- time Olympic champ Michael Johnson is the male behind the brand-new professional monitor group.
Where and when are the events happening?
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Kingston, Jamaica (April 4-6)
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Miami (May 2-4)
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Philadelphia (May 30 – June 1)
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Los Angeles (June 27-29)
How can followers see the events?
All Grand Slam Track events will definitely be streamed reside on CBCSports ca and on CBCGem For a whole program timetable of sports activities events this era, go to this website
