The StoneX Stadium, dwelling to Saracens and Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers, will play host to the assembly in September.
ATHLOS, the ladies’s-only observe and discipline occasion created by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, is coming to London.
Now in its third consecutive 12 months, ATHLOS is increasing internationally for the primary time, with the British capital and New York Metropolis chosen as the 2 areas for this season.
London will play host to a number of the world’s greatest feminine observe and discipline athletes on September 18, earlier than New York Metropolis hosts the finale on October 2.
Organisers are planning to broaden subsequent 12 months’s ATHLOS, which is owned fully by Ohanian’s enterprise capital agency Seven Seven Six and boasts belongings of $900m (£670m), to extra main cities.
„I’ve lengthy been very obsessive about this ‚F1 for observe and discipline‘ analogy. We come to anticipate the quickest vehicles on this planet to tour the best world cities, and for folks to come back out and watch and have a good time this excellence,“ Ohanian instructed BBC Sport.
„I envision ATHLOS to be a model of that and, as we develop this league, I would love so as to add extra cities and make ATHLOS actually world.
„No matter we do, we’ll do it with our athletes as companions – however our ambition is huge. I do not see any cause why ATHLOS cannot be a mainstay of the sporting calendar.“
There shall be seven disciplines on present in London and New York Metropolis – 100m hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, mile, and lengthy leap – and 6 athletes will compete in every of them.
Athletes can earn as much as $65,000 (£48,500) in every self-discipline, with the one that locations first in every occasion over the 2 meets receiving a $25k bonus + Tiffany and Co. crown as nicely. The general prize pot for the collection this 12 months is $2.1m (£1.5m). Winners on the ATHLOS meets can even earn fairness within the league from this 12 months onwards.
Sha’Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas and Tara Davis-Woodhall, who’re founding adviser-owners in ATHLOS, have up to now been confirmed to compete at ATHLOS this 12 months. Olympic and 2023 world 400m champion Marileidy Paulino can even take to the beginning line.
Each of the ATHLOS conferences will happen after the Diamond League season and the inaugural World Final Championship in Budapest from September 11-13.
Final 12 months a myriad of Brits have been in New York Metropolis, with Keely Hodgkinson, Georgia Hunter Bell, Amy Hunt, Amber Anning and Jazmin Sawyers competing. Hodgkinson gained the 800m in a gathering file of 1:56.53 on the Icahn Stadium. Different world names who participated included Religion Kipyegon, Masai Russell and Salwa Eid Naser.
The StoneX Stadium, situated in north west London and residential to Saracens and Shaftesbury Barnet Harriers, is not any stranger to internet hosting elite athletes. Hendon used to stage Nice Britain cup finals, the Southern Athletics Championships, plus the likes of Zola Budd and Seb Coe have run on the observe. The English Colleges Athletics Championships have been additionally held on the stadium in 1964 and 1977.
