Canada's Arop wins 800m for third straight time at Grand Slam Track event

The Canadian Press

· Posted: May 31, 2025 6:54 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Canada's Marco Arop crossed the decorativeness enactment successful 1 infinitesimal 43.48 seconds to triumph the men's 800 metres successful Grand Slam Track enactment connected Saturday astatine Franklin Field successful Philadelphia.

The Edmonton native, who won satellite title golden successful 2023 and Olympic metallic successful 2024 successful the 800, has won each 3 800-metre Grand Slam races. He volition vie successful the 1,500 connected Sunday.

WATCH | Canada's Marco Arop wins 800m astatine Grand Slam Track Philadelphia successful ascendant fashion:

Bednarek wins 200m

Toronto's Aaron Brown placed 3rd with a clip of 20.50 seconds, conscionable a hairsbreadth down Great Britain's Zharnel Hughes (20.50) successful the men's 200. Andre De Grasse of Markham, Ont., clocked successful astatine 20.58 seconds to decorativeness fourth.

American Kenny Bednarek, the 2024 Olympic metallic medallist successful the 200, won the lawsuit successful 19.95 seconds. They volition each vie successful the 100 connected Sunday.

WATCH | American Bednarek wins Grand Slam Track Philadelphia 200m, Canada's Brown 3rd and De Grasse 4th:

Grand Slam Track was started by American way and tract fable Michael Johnson, with this being 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 sytem 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."