Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone has laid down an early marker this season after convincingly profitable each of her races on the inaugural Grand Slam Monitor in Kingston, Jamaica (April 4-6).
A lot consideration was paid to the double Olympic 400m hurdles champion and world record-holder forward of the occasion, given she was the primary athlete to enroll to Grand Slam Monitor final June and has turn out to be a figurehead for Michael Johnson’s new skilled observe league.
In typical McLaughlin-Levrone fashion, she duly delivered. After operating 52.76 to win the 400m hurdles on Friday – the quickest time by a feminine athlete within the self-discipline in April – the 25-year-old returned on Sunday to ease to victory over the flat 400m.
McLaughlin-Levrone, from lane six, made her intentions clear from the off and had already made up the stagger by the half-way stage of the race. From then on it was a procession, with the American coming via in 50.32 to turn out to be the ladies’s Lengthy Hurdles champion.
In her post-race interview, McLaughlin-Levrone said that she and her staff have talked about her taking up the Brief Sprints (100m/100m hurdles) in Philadelphia after which the Lengthy Sprints (200m/400m) in Los Angeles.
Marco Arop and Emmanuel Wanyonyi (Grand Slam Monitor)
One of many different headline races on Sunday got here within the males’s 800m as Emmanuel Wanyonyi, a day after he took down the complete Olympic 1500m podium from Paris in their very own occasion, sealed his win within the males’s Brief Distance group.
The Olympic 800m champion, this time operating in his favoured occasion, clocked 1:46.44 for second and positioned behind Marco Arop, who claimed the silver medal behind the Kenyan within the French capital final summer season.
Arop ran 1:45.13 for his win in Kingston and each 800m specialists, in addition to Bryce Hoppel, have been effectively forward of those that have starred over 1500m in recent times.
Neil Gourley and Cole Hocker have been fourth and fifth in 1:47.84 and 1:48.02 respectively, Yared Nuguse positioned sixth with 1:48.16 and Mohamed Attaoui and Josh Kerr completed seventh and eighth in 1:48.44 and 1:50.68.
Grant Fisher (Grand Slam Monitor)
Grant Fisher nearly did sufficient to turn out to be the lads’s Lengthy Distance group champion and take residence the highest prize of $100,000, beating Ethiopia’s Hagos Gebrhiwet by only one level throughout each the 3000m and 5000m.
After his victory over 12 and a half laps on Friday, Fisher knew that he may afford to doubtlessly place second or third within the 3000m and nonetheless take residence the crown general.
The 3000m, ultimately, turned out to be two totally different races included into one. Gebrhiwet and his compatriot Telahun Haile Bekele began fantastically and went via 800m in 2:03.90, establishing a big hole to the remainder of the sphere.
Hagos Gebrhiwet (Grand Slam Monitor)
Gebrhiwet would go on to entrance run the race and took the win in 7:51.55, taking his whole to 17 factors. That meant that Fisher needed to place third within the 3000m to safe an outright victory throughout each distance disciplines.
Coming down the house straight the American was fifth however produced a sensational kick, paying homage to what he did on the Paris Olympics, to take third spot.
Fisher clocked 8:03.85 and with 12 factors from the 5000m and 6 factors within the 3000m, totalled 18 factors general.
Melissa Jefferson-Wood (Grand Slam Monitor)
One of the crucial dominant performances of the complete Kingston Slam got here within the girls’s Brief Sprints as Melissa Jefferson-Wood took residence the utmost 24 factors on provide with victories in each the 100m and 200m.
The American opened her 2025 season with a clean 11.11 win within the 100m and, despite the fact that she hadn’t competed in a single 200m in 2024, took the victory over half a lap with 23.46.
Jenna Prandini, who got here in as a late Challenger within the Brief Sprints group, was each second within the 200m and general.
Sasha Zhoya and Michael Johnson (Grand Slam Monitor)
Sasha Zhoya, final yr’s Diamond League 110m hurdles champion, backed up that accolade by profitable the lads’s Brief Hurdles group on the Kingston Slam.
The Australian-born French athlete had completed second to American Dylan Beard in Friday’s 110m hurdles however turned on the warmth within the flat 100m, securing a convincing victory in 10.55.
Beard, the Millrose 60m hurdles champion who’s presently unsponsored and works at Walmart in Atlanta, was third within the 100m in 10.67. That was sufficient for second place general and $50,000.
Ejgayehu Taye (Grand Slam Monitor)
With the third and closing Kingston Grand Slam session going down within the afternoon, in comparison with a later begin on Friday and Saturday, temperatures in Jamaica peaked across the 31C mark. The sultry circumstances, mixed with the wind, made it particularly tough for the gap runners, with the ladies’s 5000m being the longest occasion on the Sunday.
Simply three tenths of a second separated Ethiopia’s Ejgayehu Taye and Kenya’s Agnes Ngetich within the 3000m on Friday – the pair clocked 8:28.42 and eight:28.75 respectively – and the battle to win the 5000m was between them as effectively.
Ngetich – the 2023 world particular person cross-country bronze medallist – established a spot of two seconds simply earlier than the half-way mark however, because the tempo slowed, Taye caught up and the duo matched one another’s tempo till the final lap.
Taye, the world 10,000m bronze medallist from Budapest, was the one who took the initiative and kicked with 300m to go, happening to assert victory in 14:54.88, with Ngetich second in 14:59.80.
Because of this, with a complete of 24 factors from the 3000m and 5000m, Taye grew to become the ladies’s Lengthy Distance champion.
Alison dos Santos (Grand Slam Monitor)
Alison dos Santos took the total 24 factors on provide to dominate the lads’s Lengthy Hurdles group. After a convincing victory in his favoured 400m hurdles on Friday, the Brazilian was pressured to work a lot more durable for his win within the flat 400m.
In powerful windy circumstances, the 2022 world 400m hurdles champion reeled his opponents in down the house straight and clocked 45.52, edging out American Chris Robinson who ran 45.54.
Danielle Williams received the ladies’s Brief Hurdles crown after operating 11.54 to win the 100m on residence soil. The Jamaican positioned second to American Tia Jones within the 110m hurdles yesterday however picked up the total 12 factors within the flat 100m, totalling 20 factors general.
Winners of the Kingston Slam teams:
Males’s Brief Sprints (100m/200m) – Kenny Bednarek
Girls’s Brief Sprints (100m/200m) – Melissa Jefferson-Wood
Males’s Lengthy Sprints (200m/400m) – Matthew Hudson-Smith
Girls’s Lengthy Sprints (200m/400m) – Gabby Thomas
Males’s Brief Hurdles (110m hurdles/100m) – Sasha Zhoya
Girls’s Brief Hurdles (100m hurdles/100m) – Danielle Williams
Males’s Lengthy Hurdles (400m hurdles/400m) – Alison dos Santos
Girls’s Lengthy Hurdles (400m hurdles/400m) – Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone
Males’s Brief Distance (800m/1500m) – Emmanuel Wanyonyi
Girls’s Brief Distance (800m/1500m) – Diribe Welteji
Males’s Lengthy Distance (3000m/5000m) – Grant Fisher
Girls’s Lengthy Distance (3000m/5000m) – Ejgayehu Taye
Full outcomes right here.
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