🏃🏾‍♀️Grand Slam Track Quick Guide & Schedule

Syndey McLaughlin-Levrone via BBC

Olympic Champion Michael Johnson's Grand Slam Track circuit launched last weekend with Olympic stars like Gabby Thomas and Syndey McLaughlin-Levrone taking home top prizes! 🏆

While the races are familiar to track and field fans, major changes have been made to the traditional formats.

What to expect:

1. This is strictly running events (no field events).

2. Running races are 100m, 200m, 100mH, 110mH, 400m, 400mH, 800m, 1500m, 3000m, and 5000m for men and women.

3. There are Six Race Groups. What is a race group, you ask? These are paired events that athletes must complete.

The six ‘Race Groups’ are:

• Short sprints: 100m and 200m (men’s and women’s)

• Short hurdles: 100mH (women)/110mH (men), and 100m flat (men’s and women’s)

• Short distance: 800m and 1500m (men’s and women’s)

• Long sprints: 200m and 400m (men’s and women’s)

• Long hurdles: 400mH and 400m flat (men’s and women’s)

• Long distance: 3000m and 5000m (men’s and women’s)

  
  

  

  Gabby Thomas winning 200m Long Sprints via Forbes

This means we won't see specialists vying for a prize. To win the top prize of $100,000 they must have the highest score among their race group. Below are the points awarded for each placement:

• Winners: 12 points

• Second place: 8 points

• Third place: 6 points

• Fourth place: 5 points

• Fifth place: 4 points

• Sixth place: 3 points

• Seventh place: 2 points

• Eighth place: 1 Point

Schedule:

The 2025 Grand Slam Track season will include four events, or ‘Slams.' The first took place last weekend in Kingston, Jamaica. The following three are below:

Grand Slam Track Miami

Dates: 2-4 May 2025

Venue: Ansin Sports Complex in Miami, Florida, USA

Grand Slam Track Philadelphia

Dates: May 30 - June 1 2025

Venue: Franklin Field, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Grand Slam Track Los Angeles

Dates: 27-29 June 2025

Venue: Drake Stadium, Los Angeles, California, USA