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Edmonton's Marco Arop won the short-distance rubric astatine a Grand Slam Track lawsuit aft finishing 4th successful Sunday's men's 1,500-metre race.
Edmonton autochthonal won signature 800m lawsuit Saturday, finishes 4th successful 1,500m Sunday
The Canadian Press
· Posted: Jun 01, 2025 5:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago
Edmonton's Marco Arop won the short-distance rubric astatine a Grand Slam Track lawsuit successful Philadelphia aft finishing 4th successful Sunday's men's 1,500-metre race.
He had 17 points altogether successful the abbreviated distances aft winning Saturday's 800 metres. That was 1 constituent amended than Britain's Josh Kerr, who won the 1,500 successful 3:34.44 but was 5th successful the 800.
Arop, the Olympic metallic medallist astatine the Paris Games, has won each 3 800-metre Grand Slam races truthful far. He finished 2nd wide successful abbreviated region astatine the archetypal 2 stops connected the circuit aft finishing sixth and seventh successful the 1,500.
WATCH | Arop claims men's abbreviated region Grand Slam Track Philadelphia crown:
Edmonton's Marco Arop claims Grand Slam Track Philadelphia rubric with 4th spot decorativeness successful 1,500m
Andre De Grasse of Markham, Ont., was 5th and Aaron Brown of Toronto was seventh successful Sunday's 100 metres to decorativeness 4th and 5th respectively successful the abbreviated sprint category.
American Kenny Bednarek swept the races aft winning Saturday's 200m.
WATCH | Bednarek wins 200m; Canada's De Grasse, Brown miss podium:
American Bednarek wins 100m, Canada's De Grasse 5th and Brown 7th astatine Grand Slam Track Philadelphia
Grand Slam Track was started by American way and tract fable Michael Johnson, and is successful its inaugural season. The archetypal lawsuit was successful Kingston, Jamaica, the 2nd successful Miami, and the 4th and past 1 volition beryllium successful Los Angeles June 27-29.
All competitors person to vie successful 2 events and are divided into categories — abbreviated sprints (100, 200), agelong sprints (200, 400), abbreviated hurdles (100 hurdles for women, 110 hurdles for men, 100 for both), agelong hurdles (400 hurdles, 400), abbreviated region (800, 1,500), agelong region (3,000, 5,000) — with a points strategy successful place.
Winners get 12 points, 2nd spot gets 8 points, 3rd gets six points, 4th gets 5 points, 5th gets 4 points, sixth gets 3 points, seventh gets 2 points and eighth gets 1 point.
The jock with the astir points aft competing successful some races from each class is named the "Slam Champion" for their contention group. The wide play person successful points for each contention radical volition beryllium recognized arsenic "Racer of the Year."
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