Lots of the world’s high girls’s monitor athletes are set to compete for document prizes when the inaugural Athlos NYC will get beneath approach on Thursday.
American Olympic 200m champion Gabby Thomas and Kenyan 1,500m world document holder Religion Kipyegon are among the many stars in motion on the girls’s-only monitor invitational.
Alexis Ohanian – husband of 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion Serena Williams – has launched the occasion which boasts a document $500,000 (£374,000) prize pool, exterior for a girls’s monitor meet.
Winners throughout six disciplines will obtain $60,000 (£44,900).
The Diamond League, as compared, affords a $15,000 (£11,200) first prize throughout its 15 sequence conferences, rising to $30,000 (£22,400) for the ultimate.
“I requested these girls, I used to be like, ‘Hey, so what’s your high prize on the finish of a season for successful?’ They usually mentioned $30,000,” Ohanian advised Reuters.
“And I mentioned, ‘Nice, I’ll double it for one single race’.”
There are two Brits in motion with Daryll Neita racing within the 100m and Katie Snowden competing within the 1500m.
The Athlos assembly continues wider funding within the sport and its athletes, with World Athletics paying Olympic champions for the primary time on the Paris Video games this 12 months.
In June, American legend Michael Johnson introduced the launch of a profitable new athletics league beginning in April 2025 referred to as Grand Slam monitor, with a complete of $12.6m (£9.9m) in prize cash.
And final week, the Diamond League mentioned it will increase its prize cash for the 2025 season.
“It is a terrific signal when there are different individuals seeing what you are doing and racing to be part of it too,” mentioned Ohanian.