{"id":166906,"date":"2025-09-25T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166906\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T00:01:07","slug":"afl-grand-final-sprint-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/166906\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Grand Final sprint 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic boxer Harry Garside, rising athletics star Gout Gout and Giants skipper Toby Greene will be involved in the 2025 Grand Final Sprint under a new-look format.<\/p>\n<p>Gout will fire the starter gun for the half-time race between only eight participants and seven from AFL clubland \u2014 Greene, Collingwood\u2019s reigning winner Beau McCreery, Sydney\u2019s Nick Blakey, Gold Coast\u2019s Jed Walter, Richmond\u2019s Maurice Rioli, St Kilda\u2019s Jack Higgins and Fremantle\u2019s Murphy Reid.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a change of the traditional format that has featured runners from all 18 clubs and heats leading into the race.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the best build-up to the 2025 AFL Grand Final, with expert analysis and full Grand Final day coverage, on Fox Footy via Kayo | <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au?pg=afl&amp;extcamp=fsaeditoriallinkafl-edt-fsp-lnk-awr-grc-afl-kyo&amp;channel=fsa&amp;campaign=fsacontra&amp;voucher=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New to Kayo? 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For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would\u2019ve been great to be playing on Saturday but I\u2019m excited to be part of the biggest day on the AFL calendar racing,\u201c Greene said in a statement via the AFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t wait to go up against Harry, and hopefully the boys can impress Gout!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gout, who was originally rumoured to be taking part in the sprint, comes fresh off a fourth-placed finish the 200m semi-final at the Tokyo World Athletics Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The grand final sprint participants.Source: FOX SPORTSThe grand final sprint participants.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m super excited to be coming to Melbourne for the Grand Final in September and firing the start pistol for the half-time sprint,\u201d Gout said in an AFL statement earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cFirst time for me&#8230; and I hope I\u2019ll be cheering on the Lions! The AFL Grand Final is such a massive day, I\u2019m pumped!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The junior club of the winner of this year\u2019s race will be awarded $5,000. <\/p>\n<p>The grand final sprint was first held in 1979 and has been a consistent part of the biggest day on the AFL calendar since 2002. Geoff Ablett, uncle of AFL legend Gary, holds the record for the most wins with four.<\/p>\n<p>2025 Grand Final Sprint participants<\/p>\n<p>Maurice Rioli (Richmond)<\/p>\n<p>Jed Walter (Gold Coast Suns)<\/p>\n<p>Toby Greene (GWS Giants)<\/p>\n<p>Beau McCreery (Collingwood)<\/p>\n<p>Nick Blakey (Sydney)<\/p>\n<p>Jack Higgins (St Kilda)<\/p>\n<p>Murphy Reid (Fremantle)<\/p>\n<p>Harry Garside<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olympic boxer Harry Garside, rising athletics star Gout Gout and Giants skipper Toby Greene will be involved in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,689,55,639,684,109509,106613,109508,82404,2485,9130,11288,109506,25051,25875,24778,647,25878,109507,19122,677,109513,701,109512,85,1122,109510,19086,109511,660],"class_list":["post-166906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-ben-cotton","tag-calendar-racing","tag-day-coverage","tag-final-sprint-competitors","tag-geoff-ablett","tag-gold-coast","tag-gold-coast-suns","tag-grand-final","tag-grand-final-sprint","tag-jack-higgins","tag-lachie-neale","tag-maurice-rioli","tag-melbourne","tag-murphy-reid","tag-new-look-format","tag-nick-blakey","tag-oceania","tag-olympic-boxer","tag-queensland","tag-rising-athletics","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-start-pistol","tag-toby-greene","tag-traditional-format","tag-victoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}