KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The American quartet of Kenneth Bednarek, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, and Christopher Bailey all received their respective occasions when the inaugural Grand Slam Monitor Sequence bought underway on Friday on the Nationwide Stadium in Kingston.
Bednarek, identified primarily as a 200-meter runner, crossed the end line first within the marquee occasion, the boys’s 100 meters, in a time of 10.07 seconds, simply forward of Jamaica’s Indirect Seville (10.08) and Zarnel Hughes of Nice Britain in 10.13 seconds, the identical time as hometown boy Ackeem Blake who was fourth.
McLaughlin-Levrone was a cushty winner within the ladies’s 400-meter hurdles, along with her time of 52.76 seconds nicely forward of her teammate Dalilah Muhammad in 54.59, with Jamaica’s duo of Russell Clayton (55.02) and Andrenette Knight (55.06), third and fourth respectively.
In the meantime, Thomas received within the ladies’s 200 meters in 22.62 seconds. Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic was second in 22.93 seconds, and Dina Asher-Smith of Nice Britain third in 22.96.
Bailey was dominant within the males’s 400 meters, crossing the end line first in 44.34 seconds, with Nice Britain’s Matthew Hudson-Smith (44.65) and Vernon Norwood of the USA (44.70), putting second and third, respectively.
The USA additionally earned a 1-2-3 within the males’s 5000 meters because of Grant Fisher (14:39.14), Cooper Teare (14:39.31), and Dylan Jacobs (14:39.56).
Brazil’s Alison Don Santos ran away with the boys’s 400-meter hurdles in 47.61, forward of Jamaica’s Roshawn Clarke in 48.20 and Caleb Deane of the USA in 48.58.
Nikki Hiltz of the USA received the ladies’s 800 meters (1:58.23), whereas Ejgayehu Taye of Ethiopia captured the ladies’s 3000 meters in 8:28.42.
