Seven disciplines will be contested in both London and New York – the 100m hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, mile, and long jump – with an athlete’s combined points determining the overall event winner.<\/p>\n
Athletes can earn up to $65,000 (\u00a348,500) in each individual event, while overall champions will receive an additional $25,000 (\u00a318,600), meaning an athlete winning in both cities could pocket $155,000 (\u00a3115,000).<\/p>\n
Great Britain’s Keely Hodgkinson was among the winners at the 2025 meet as some of the world’s fastest women competed amid a party atmosphere inside a packed Icahn Stadium, with live music and Tiffany & Co crowns presented by Serena Williams replacing traditional winners’ medals.<\/p>\n
After adding its London event in 2026, Ohanian’s ultimate aim is to create a worldwide, season-long league.<\/p>\n
That is an ambition over which he has long been in conversation with the sports’ governing body and “great partners” World Athletics.<\/p>\n
“I’m at a very fortunate place in my career in my life where I don’t want to do anything small. I want to do things that have big impacts, that are about legacy,” said Ohanian, who bought a 10% stake in Women’s Super League football team Chelsea last year.<\/p>\n
“We know we’re entering into something really ambitious. Ultimately we want to build a league around athletics, which historically has not had commercial success. This is a big moment for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven disciplines will be contested in both London and New York – the 100m hurdles, 100m, 200m, 400m,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-459712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}