Nice Britain sprinter Zharnel Hughes will participate within the inaugural season of Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Monitor 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 goal of bringing collectively the world’s greatest athletes.
It would function 48 contracted athletes however there may also 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 ultimately summer season’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 last 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 turned the primary British lady to affix the league, which is cut up over 4 occasions and begins in April 2025.
Three of the 4 conferences in 2025 can be hosted in American cities Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia, whereas Kingston in Jamaica may also stage an occasion.
“I am pushed by the will to be the very best, to encourage others, and to go away a long-lasting legacy,” stated Hughes.
“The way forward for our sport is vibrant, and with the worldwide reputation of observe, I believe now could be the proper time to affix Grand Slam Monitor.”