Assembly will happen on Could 31 and June 1 in barely revised format
Grand Slam Monitor has introduced the competitors schedule for the third Slam of its inaugural season, a bunch of recent elite Challengers who will compete in Philadelphia, plus some modifications to the League’s format for the Philadelphia Slam.
The Philadelphia Slam will now happen throughout two days, fairly than three, on Could 31–June 1, at Franklin Discipline.
“Coming off an incredible sold-out Miami Slam, we’ve taken time to rejoice the successes we’ve achieved in our inaugural season, but additionally have appeared for tactics to enhance Grand Slam Monitor in actual time,” stated Grand Slam Monitor founder Michael Johnson.
“We’ve stated all alongside we wish to take heed to our followers, athletes, and coaches, and having heard suggestions from numerous key stakeholders, we’ve made the choice to condense our schedule in Philadelphia into two, high-octane, and intense days of fight racing. We wish to be essentially the most versatile, adaptive, and fan-first league in sports activities, and we imagine making these modifications will enhance the Grand Slam Monitor expertise for all.”
Johnson believes Philadelphia Slam’s new streamlined competitors format will profit followers in attendance, and viewers at residence alike, offering intense, condensed, high-stakes observe racing.
To make sure essentially the most thrilling and aggressive matchups, the boys’s and girls’s lengthy distance race teams will every compete in a single 3000m race. As they’ll solely be competing in a single race on the Slam, lengthy distance race teams will compete for an adjusted prize pool, with the winner taking residence $50,000 as an alternative of $100,000.
The league has additionally named 5 new Challengers who will compete on the Philadelphia Slam: Hobbs Kessler and Josh Hoey within the males’s quick distance, Georgia Hunter Bell and Nia Akins within the ladies’s quick distance and Isabella Whittaker within the ladies’s lengthy sprints.
The Philadelphia Slam can even see a rematch from Miami, with Gabby Thomas as soon as once more competing within the ladies’s quick sprints, and going through off towards her rival and two-time Slam Champion Melissa Jefferson-Wood.
Additionally in Philadelphia, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone will compete within the ladies’s quick hurdles group, which can see her run the 100m professionally for the very first time. This group can even see the primary ever face-off between three Slam Champions, as Miami Slam Champion Ackera Nugent, and two-time Slam Champion McLaughlin-Levrone, will probably be joined by returning Challenger and Kingston Slam Champion Danielle Williams, all battling for glory and the $100,000 prize.
The Challengers introduced this week be a part of the already introduced Williams, Ditaji Kambundji, Trey Cunningham, Jakub Szymański, Lorenzo Simonelli and Cordell Tinch. The Grand Slam Monitor roster of 48 Racers who will compete in Philadelphia contains Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, Kenny Bednarek, Melissa Jefferson-Wood, Grant Fisher, Sasha Zhoya, Marileidy Paulino, Salwa Eid Naser, Alison dos Santos, Matthew Hudson-Smith, Nikki Hiltz, Masai Russell, Alexis Holmes, Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse, Josh Kerr, Indirect Seville, Ackera Nugent, Roshawn Clarke, Rushell Clayton, Nickisha Worth, Cyréna Samba-Mayela, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Jereem Richards, Ronald Kwemoi, Agnes Ngetich, Muzala Samukonga, Jess Hull, Marco Arop and extra.
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