{"id":14066,"date":"2025-05-05T06:40:04","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/grand-slam-track-josh-kerr-claims-first-slam-win-and-100000-in-miami\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T06:40:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T06:40:04","slug":"grand-slam-track-josh-kerr-claims-first-slam-win-and-100000-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/grand-slam-track-josh-kerr-claims-first-slam-win-and-100000-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Slam Track: Josh Kerr claims first slam win and $100,000 in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Canada&#8217;s Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop won the men&#8217;s 800m in one minute and 43.69 seconds, ahead of American Nuguse (1:43.75) who also finished runner-up in the 1500m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After his start to 2025 was disrupted by illness and injury, Olympic 1500m silver medallist Kerr showed he is returning to form by clocking a personal best 1:45.01 over two laps on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Also on Saturday, American Olympic 100m bronze medallist Melissa Jefferson-Wooden pipped Olympic 200m champion Gabby Thomas to victory in the women&#8217;s short sprints group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thomas ran a season&#8217;s best 21.95 seconds to win her favoured event after finishing fourth in the 100m on Friday, but 100m winner Jefferson-Wooden produced a 200m personal best of 22.15 for third to win by one point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Daryll Neita placed eighth in 22.93.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the men&#8217;s long sprints, Matthew Hudson-Smith ran 44.37 for third in the 400m, finishing fifth overall after placing seventh in the 200m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final day of Grand Slam Track action in Miami sees Britain&#8217;s George Mills aim for victory in the men&#8217;s long distance discipline as he races over 5,000m after his third-place finish in the 3,000m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zharnel Hughes races over 200m after placing fourth in the 100m, while in the women&#8217;s long sprints group Amber Anning competes in the 200m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There are two more three-day slams after Miami &#8211; in Philadelphia from 30 May and Los Angeles from 27 June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c4gr1ykxxdlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s Olympic silver medallist Marco Arop won the men&#8217;s 800m in one minute and 43.69 seconds, ahead of American Nuguse (1:43.75) who also finished runner-up in the 1500m. After his start to 2025 was disrupted by illness and injury, Olympic 1500m silver medallist Kerr showed he is returning to form by clocking a personal best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14068,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}