The latest observe league, Grand Slam Monitor (GST), has introduced the date for the debut occasion of its 2025 season. The league will kick off April 4–6, 2025, at Jamaica’s iconic Nationwide Stadium in Kingston.
Kingston joins beforehand introduced Los Angeles as one of many host cities for the 2025 Grand Slam Monitor season. Two extra cities are reported to be introduced later this week however are rumoured to be New York Metropolis and London/Birmingham, U.Ok. The 4 occasions can be spaced out all through the 2025 observe and area season within the run-up to the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo subsequent September.
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Grand Slam Monitor can be in Jamaica from April 4-6, 2025.
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“We’re thrilled to convey Grand Slam Monitor to Kingston,” GST founder and four-time U.S. Olympic champion Michael Johnson stated in a press launch. “Jamaica has such a powerful historical past in observe and area. The expertise and keenness for the game right here make it a super location for what we’re constructing. Will probably be an unimaginable occasion, and we’re proud to have Kingston as certainly one of our 4 Slams for the inaugural season to kick off the league.”
The primary of the 4 Slam occasions will function a dynamic format the place athletes compete twice of their respective divisions. Canadian 800m world champion and Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop will take part within the short-distance division, which suggests he’ll run each 800m and 1,500m occasions over three days. Arop will go head-to-head in opposition to different world-class athletes, akin to Josh Kerr, Yared Nuguse, and Olympic 1,500m champion Cole Hocker.
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What’s Grand Slam Monitor?
Grand Slam Monitor (GST) is modelled after skilled golf and tennis, aiming to convey a collection of 4 high-stakes occasions every season. The league will function 96 elite observe athletes break up into two teams of 48 racers and 48 challengers. Every Slam occasion consists of six classes, the place athletes will compete in two races per class, creating thrilling competitors with out pace-setters or lights, to encourage natural racing.
Distinctive to GST, athletes will race with out conventional bibs to amplify particular person branding, with the intention of enhancing recognition and sponsorship alternatives. With vital money prizes on the road, those that sweep all 4 occasions of their class stand to earn as much as USD $400,000.
Past Arop, Kerr, and Hocker, the league has attracted many different big-name athletes, akin to 400m hurdles world report holder Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Olympic 400m champion Quincy Corridor and Australian 1,500m standout Jessica Hull.
Although the league consists of greater than two dozen Olympic medallists, GST has but to safe an official international broadcasting deal for the 4 meets.
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