GRAND SLAM TRACK KINGSTON DAY 2 REACTION SHOW – GABBY THOMAS SHINES, BEDNAREK SWEEPS, WANYONYI STUNS 1500 FIELD

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chris Chavez, Aisha Praught-Leer, Eric Jenkins and Anderson Emerole unpack all the action from Day 2 of Grand Slam Track: Kingston.

Kenny Bednarek — Mr. 2x Olympic Medal, now Mr. Slam Champion — swept the short sprints and made it look easy. 100m? Win. 200m? Win. $100k? Yes please. Not bad for a weekend in Jamaica.

Gabby Thomas? She didn’t just win. She leveled up. A massive 400m PR (49.14!) — behind only a world-leading time from Salwa Eid Naser — locked down the Women’s Long Sprints crown. Two races. One trophy. Another six-figure payday.

But it wasn’t just the Americans cleaning up. Matthew Hudson-Smith of Great Britain edged out the 400m crew to win the Men’s Long Sprints Slam. Diribe Welteji outkicked Nikki Hiltz to take the Women’s Short Distance title in a spicy 1500m.

And oh yeah — there was that absolutely loaded men’s 1500 field where 800m Olympic champ Emmanuel Wanyonyi stepped up in distance and beat the entire Paris medal stand.

Tonight was the night that we believe fans started to rock with the brand-new league format. Fast, fresh, and fun. It’s a modern take on track with real stakes — and real checks — on the line.And it’s only Day 2.Let’s talk about the money. The medals. The matchups. And why this might be the shake-up the sport’s been waiting for.

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome back to Kingston, Jamaica, Krishavis here with Anderson Anderson Emerald, Aisha Pratlier, and Eric Jenkins.
0:25.3	After day two of Grand Slam track, Kingston, we had our first four slam champions crowned today.
0:34.2	I think today's day of action was just electric from from start to finish overall
0:39.7	impressions on the day. Anderson. This this felt like grand slam track to me like this was the day
0:45.6	that like fans were out the energy was out. We saw the champions like this was a day. I felt it.
0:50.6	Aisha. Start to finish. They brought in some high schoolers to start the meat and the vibes from there.
0:56.7	Just basically went to the moon.
0:58.4	It was great.
0:59.3	Yeah, it definitely was better today.
1:01.2	We walked here, hell of a walk.
1:02.9	Really?
1:03.2	Yeah.
1:03.9	Don't even know that.
1:04.8	As soon as you got in, the energy was better.
1:07.9	Like, it was electric.
1:09.6	You could hear the stadium from, from a few blocks away.
1:12.3	That's how we knew where we were going.
1:13.8	Yeah.
1:14.0	You're falling by ear.
1:15.7	Yeah.
1:17.4	So, yeah, it was, the races were great.
1:20.3	The crowd was wild.
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