Canada's Marco Arop wins 800m at Grand Slam Track stop in Florida

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· Posted: May 03, 2025 9:14 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

After taking the pb connected the doorbell lap, Edmonton's Marco Arop held connected to win the 800m astatine Grand Slam Track lawsuit successful Miramar, Fla. connected Saturday. 

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Arop finished the contention successful a season's champion clip of 1:43.69, edging retired American Yared Nuguse (1:43.75) who finished 2nd and Australian Peter Bol (1:44.13) successful 3rd.

Great Britain's Josh Kerr claimed the men's abbreviated region title and $100,000 US prize astatine the Grand Slam Track aft finishing 5th successful the 800m with a idiosyncratic champion clip of 1:45.01. Kerr's 5th place finish earned him 4 much points to adhd onto his 12 points from his 1500m triumph connected Friday.

Arop would finish 2nd in the men's abbreviated region wide scores. 

Bednarek takes 100m

American star, Kenny Bednarek won the men's 100-metre abbreviated sprints contention successful 9.79. Canadians Jerome Blake and Andre De Grasse decorativeness 7th, 8th respectively. Both finished successful implicit 10 seconds with Blake clocking 10.04 and De Grasse finishing successful 10.05.

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Canada's Lucia Stafford finished 6th successful the 1500m in 4:14.66. 

Ethiopia's Freweyni Hailu would instrumentality the 1500m contention in 4:06.96, up of American Nikki Hiltz successful 2nd (4:07.08) and chap state women, Diribe Welteji (4:07.46) successful 3rd.