Nice Britain sprinter Zharnel Hughes will participate within the inaugural season of Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Observe in 2025.
The occasion has a prize fund of $12.6m (£9.9m) and was launched by American dash legend Johnson in June, with the purpose of bringing collectively the world’s greatest athletes.
It would function 48 contracted athletes however there can even be 48 “challengers” named at a later date.
Hughes is the British males’s file holder in each the 100m and 200m and was a part of Group GB’s 4x100m bronze medal-winning quartet eventually summer time’s Paris Olympics.
The 29-year-old additionally claimed particular person bronze within the 100m on the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
The Briton was one of many remaining 5 contracted athletes to be named on Thursday together with American sprinter Brittany Brown, who received Olympic bronze within the girls’s 200m.
In November, sprinter Daryll Neita grew to become the primary British lady to hitch the league, which is break up over 4 occasions and begins in April 2025.
Three of the 4 conferences in 2025 will likely be hosted in American cities Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, whereas Kingston in Jamaica can even stage an occasion.
“I am pushed by the will to be the most effective, to encourage others, and to go away a long-lasting legacy,” mentioned Hughes.
“The way forward for our sport is brilliant, and with the worldwide reputation of monitor, I feel now could be the fitting time to hitch Grand Slam Observe.”
