Nice Britain sprinter Zharnel Hughes will participate within the inaugural season of Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Monitor in 2025.
The occasion has a prize fund of $12.6m (£9.9m) and was launched by American dash legend Johnson in June, with the goal of bringing collectively the world’s finest athletes.
It would function 48 contracted athletes however there can even be 48 “challengers” named at a later date.
Hughes is the British males’s document holder in each the 100m and 200m and was a part of Crew GB’s 4x100m bronze medal-winning quartet finally summer season’s Paris Olympics.
The 29-year-old additionally claimed particular person bronze within the 100m on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
The Briton was one of many remaining 5 contracted athletes to be named on Thursday together with American sprinter Brittany Brown, who gained Olympic bronze within the girls’s 200m.
In November, sprinter Daryll Neita turned the primary British girl to hitch the league, which is break up over 4 occasions and begins in April 2025.
Three of the 4 conferences in 2025 will probably be hosted in American cities Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, whereas Kingston in Jamaica can even stage an occasion.
“I am pushed by the will to be the most effective, to encourage others, and to go away an enduring legacy,” stated Hughes.
“The way forward for our sport is brilliant, and with the worldwide reputation of observe, I feel now’s the suitable time to hitch Grand Slam Monitor.”
