Dina Asher-Smith, Georgia Hunter Bell and Laviai Nielsen be part of the likes of Josh Kerr, Matt Hudson-Smith and Zharnel Hughes in Pennsylvania
Grand Slam Monitor, based by quadruple Olympic and eight-time world champion Michael Johnson, has introduced their full-line up for his or her subsequent assembly in Philadelphia (Might 31 to June 1).
Not solely does it characteristic a plethora of worldwide stars however 9 of Nice Britain’s most interesting athletes – 4 Racers and 5 Challengers – will even grace the observe at Franklin Subject.
Zharnel Hughes is a Racer within the males’s Quick Sprints group and he as soon as once more competes towards Kenny Bednarek over 100m and 200m. Bednarek has picked up most factors to date (48 – 24 for every meet) with wins total in each Kingston and Miami. Hughes in the meantime positioned second in Jamaica and third in Florida.
Regardless that Daryll Neita and Dina Asher-Smith each competed in Kingston, they ran in several teams, with Neita a part of the ladies’s Quick Sprints and Asher-Smith choosing the 200m/400m problem within the Lengthy Sprints.
Nevertheless, in Philadelphia, the British sprinting duo will go head-to-head. With Neita inserting fourth within the Olympic 100m last and Asher-Smith being the nationwide 100m and 200m record-holder, it guarantees to be a pulsating battle. Each can be aiming to chase down Melissa Jefferson-Wood who, like Bednarek, has picked up each single level on supply to date.
Matthew Hudson-Smith began Grand Slam Monitor with a bang with victory within the males’s Lengthy Sprints in Kingston, following that up with a fifth place end total in Miami. The Olympic 400m silver medallist will tackle the likes of Muzala Samukonga, Steven Gardiner and Miami champion Jereem Richards in Pennsylvania.
The Nielsen twins, Laviai and Lina, make their Grand Slam observe debuts and compete within the girls’s Lengthy Sprints and Lengthy Hurdles respectively. It is going to be Laviai Nielsen’s second 400m of the season after she clocked 52.02 on the Doha Diamond League and her first 200m since final March in Johannesburg.
With Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone swapping the Lengthy Hurdles for the Quick Hurdles, Lina Nielsen’s job is made barely simpler however the British indoor 600m record-holder nonetheless faces a high quality area, which incorporates the likes of Shamier Little, Rushell Clayton and Jasmine Jones.
There’s additionally the engaging prospect of Josh Kerr going head-to-head towards Elliot Giles over 800m/1500m within the males’s Quick Distance, which can carry again reminiscences of their collision eventually 12 months’s UK Athletics Championships.
Within the 800m last, Kerr tried to move Giles on the house straight however there wasn’t sufficient room on the within of lane one. The pair clipped one another and crashed to the ground in Manchester. With Cole Hocker, Yared Nuguse, Marco Arop, Hobbs Kessler, Josh Hoey and Samuel Chapple additionally within the area, anticipate fireworks in Pennsylvania.
Georgia Hunter Bell returns to the US for the primary time since her victory within the Wanamaker Mile at February’s Millrose Video games, with the Olympic 1500m bronze medallist aiming to duplicate that success at Grand Slam Monitor. The Brit competes within the girls’s Quick Distance and faces the likes of Jess Hull and Nikki Hiltz, to call only a few.
Signed Racers Devon Allen, Masai Russell, Roshawn Clarke, Cyréna Samba-Mayela, Indirect Seville, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, and Luis Grijalva will miss the Philadelphia Slam because of accidents. A further Challenger has been added to every of their Race Teams because of this. Fred Kerley, who can be a Racer, is suspended pending the completion of authorized proceedings and won’t compete on the assembly.
“We couldn’t be extra excited to announce the complete area of opponents for the Philadelphia Slam,”mentioned Johnson. “The racing on the Miami Slam was really world-class, and we can have much more vitality and leisure for our third Slam. The spectators within the stands at Franklin Subject, and all of the followers watching from dwelling, are going to see the quickest people on this planet taking our combat-style racing to the subsequent degree.”
These are the complete line-ups (R = Racer and C = Challenger)
Males’s Quick Sprints: Kenny Bednarek ®, Zharnel Hughes ®, Andre De Grasse ©, Christian Miller ©, Christian Coleman ©, Bryan Levell ©, Udodi Onwuzurike ©, Aaron Brown ©.
Ladies’s Quick Sprints: Gabby Thomas ®, Brittany Brown ®, Daryll Neita ®, Melissa Jefferson-Wood ®, Tamari Davis ©, Thelma Davies ©, Dina Asher-Smith ©, Jadyn Mays ©.
Males’s Lengthy Sprints: Matthew Hudson-Smith ®, Muzala Samukonga ®, Steven Gardiner ®, Jereem Richards ®, Jevaughn Powell ©, Alexander Ogando ©, Khaleb McRae ©, Matthew Boling ©.
Ladies’s Lengthy Sprints:, Nickisha Pryce ®, Alexis Holmes ®, Marileidy Paulino ®, Salwa Eid Naser ®, Isabella Whittaker ©, Laviai Nielsen ©, Jessika Gbai ©, Sharlene Mawdsley ©.
Males’s Quick Hurdles: Freddie Crittenden ®, Sasha Zhoya ®, Daniel Roberts ®, Trey Cunningham ©, Jakub Szymański ©, Lorenzo Simonelli ©, Cordell Tinch ©, Jamal Britt ©.
Ladies’s Quick Hurdles: Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone ®, Ackera Nugent ®, Danielle Williams ©, Ditaji Kambundji ©, Tia Jones ©, Christina Clemons ©, Tonea Marshall ©, Megan Tapper ©.
Males’s Lengthy Hurdles: Alison dos Santos ®, Clément Ducos ®, Caleb Dean ®, Trevor Bassitt ©, Chris Robinson ©, CJ Allen ©, Assinie Wilson ©, Gerald Drummond ©.
Ladies’s Lengthy Hurdles: Shamier Little ®, Rushell Clayton ®, Jasmine Jones ®, Lina Nielsen ©, Dalilah Muhammad ©, Ayomide Folorunso ©, Anna Cockrell ©, Andrenette Knight ©.
Males’s Quick Distance: Cole Hocker ®, Josh Kerr ®, Yared Nuguse ®, Marco Arop ®, Hobbs Kessler ©, Josh Hoey ©, Elliot Giles ©, Samuel Chapple ©.
Ladies’s Quick Distance: Jess Hull ®, Nikki Hiltz ®, Diribe Welteji ®, Mary Moraa ®, Georgia Hunter Bell ©, Nia Akins ©, Abbey Caldwell ©, Addy Wiley ©.
Males’s Lengthy Distance: Grant Fisher ®, Ronald Kwemoi ®, Hagos Gebrhiwet ®, Graham Blanks ©, Nico Younger ©, Ky Robinson ©, Edwin Kurgat ©, Andrew Coscoran ©.
Ladies’s Lengthy Distance: Nozomi Tanaka ®, Tsige Gebreselama ®, Agnes Ngetich ®, Elise Cranny ®, Ejgayehu Taye ©, Weini Kelati ©, Medina Eisa ©, Josette Andrews ©.
