Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Cordell Tinch and Ditaji Kambundji are amongst these set for the third Slam
With thrilling stops in Kingston, Jamaica, and Miami, Florida, the Grand Slam Monitor league now shifts focus to its third occasion, the Philadelphia Slam, scheduled to happen from Might 30 to June 1 at Franklin Discipline.
Launched by four-time Olympic gold medallist Michael Johnson, the Grand Slam Monitor league has rapidly constructed momentum. The Miami Slam drew sell-out crowds for 2 of its three days because it awarded one other 12 new Slam Champions with $100,000 every.
The upcoming Philadelphia occasion guarantees much more pleasure as Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, who gained each earlier Slams within the Lengthy Hurdles (400m/400mH) is switching it up. The world record-holder will race within the girls’s Quick Hurdles group (100m/100mH). It’ll mark her first time racing within the 100m, and he or she boasts a private better of 12.65 within the 100m hurdles, set again in Might 2021.
The ladies’s Quick Hurdles is shaping as much as be one of many highlights of the Philadelphia meet, that includes a conflict between three Slam Champions. McLaughlin-Levrone will face off towards Miami Slam Champion Ackera Nugent and Kingston Slam Champion Danielle Williams.
Additionally getting into the line-up is Swiss athlete Ditaji Kambundji, who can be making her Grand Slam Monitor debut. Already the 2025 European Indoor 60m hurdles champion and World Indoor silver medallist, Kambundji provides additional depth to an already loaded area.
In the meantime, a compelling rematch is ready within the girls’s Quick Sprints Race Group, the place Gabby Thomas will problem her Miami rival Melissa Jefferson-Wood as soon as extra. Jefferson-Wood beat Thomas in Miami by only one level (18 to 17) to take the Slam title. Now, Thomas can be out for a second Slam win after beforehand claiming victory within the Lengthy Sprints in Kingston.
On the lads’s facet, the Quick Hurdles group will function present world chief Cordell Tinch of the US. Tinch turned heads on the Diamond League in Keqiao, China, on Might 3, clocking a rare 12.87 within the 110m hurdles, the fourth-fastest time in historical past, and taking the win over Japan’s Rachid Muratake.
Becoming a member of him in Philadelphia is Miami Slam champion Trey Cunningham. The 2022 World Championship silver medallist confirmed his tremendous type in Miami by matching his private better of 13.00 within the 110m hurdles and setting a brand new 100m better of 10.17 to win each occasions and safe the Slam title.
Europe will even see two Challengers within the group. Poland’s Jakub Szymański, recent off his gold on the 2025 European Indoor Championships, will compete, whereas Italy’s Lorenzo Simonelli, the reigning European champion in each the 110m hurdles and 4x100m relay, is ready to make his Grand Slam Monitor debut.
