Big payday for Jamaicans at Grand Slam Track

Jamaican athletes earned a mixed US$475,000 ($75 million) on the inaugural staging of Grand Slam Monitor, which passed off on the Nationwide Stadium between final Friday and Sunday.

Dash hurdler Danielle Williams earned the most important payday after profitable the Ladies’s Brief Hurdles class and pocketing US$100,000 ($15.7 million) for her efforts.

Williams, who was entered as a ‘challenger’ – that means she isn’t contracted to function in any respect 4 Grand Slam Monitor meets, ran second within the 100m Hurdles in 12.70 seconds on Saturday and returned to take the win within the flat 100m in 11.54, to tally 20 factors.

“To be trustworthy I didn’t actually take into consideration the cash like that, I attempted to deal with the issues that I can management and that’s my run, my race, nevertheless it’s a cool idea and it’s good to know you could stroll away with a lot cash,” stated Williams.

“We deserve it, we prepare most likely as onerous and possibly even more durable than some other sport, only for 12 seconds and you may’t get it again, so I’m undoubtedly happy with that,” she added.

It’s left to be seen if Williams will signal on for different stops within the collection with the occasion shifting to Miami (Might 2-4), Philadelphia (Might 30-June 1) and Los Angeles (June 27-29) within the coming months.

Roshawn Clarke was the second-highest-paid Jamaican on the meet after incomes a second-place end within the Males’s Lengthy Hurdles class, which earned him US$50,000 ($7.9 million) after his second-place run within the 400m Hurdles and fourth-place effort within the 400m, which gave him 13 factors.

Andrenette Knight, who featured within the Ladies’s Lengthy Hurdles and Males’s Brief Sprints competitor Indirect Seville and Ackera Nugent, who additionally competed within the Ladies’s Brief Hurdles, all walked away with US$30,000 ($4.7 million) after ending third of their respective classes.

Nugent completed fourth within the 110m Hurdles and second within the 100m for a mixed 13 factors. Knight, in the meantime, was fourth within the ladies’s 400m Hurdles and second within the flat one-lap occasion, bringing her factors tally to 13 as nicely.

Seville, ran second within the 100m and needed to accept fifth within the 200m in his Brief Sprints class.

Kemba Nelson and Shiann Salmon each completed fourth of their respective classes, taking house US$25,000 ($3.9 million) within the course of.

Nelson, competing within the ladies’s Brief Sprints, was fifth within the 100m and fourth within the 200m, tallying 9 factors, whereas Salmon, who featured within the Ladies’s Lengthy Hurdles, was sixth in her 400m Hurdles project and fourth within the 400m, for a mixed factors whole of eight.

Incomes US$20,000 ($3.1 million) every have been Ackeem Blake and Deandre Watkins, who competed within the Males’s Brief Sprints and Lengthy Sprints, respectively, ending in fifth place of their classes.

Blake completed fourth in his 100m race and was seventh within the 200m for a complete of seven factors, whereas Watkins was seventh and third in his 400m and 200m runs, incomes eight factors over the weekend.

Three Jamaicans completed sixth of their classes, incomes US$15,000 ($2.4 million).

Staceyann Williams needed to accept seventh within the 200m and was fifth in her 400m pet occasion for a mixed six factors within the Ladies’s Lengthy Sprints class.

Competing within the Ladies’s Brief Sprints, Alana Reid, additionally tallied six factors, after sixth-place finishes in each the 100m and 200m, whereas Rushell Clayton’s weekend received off to a constructive begin with a third-place end within the 400m Hurdles however suffered an harm within the 400m and was not capable of end the race.

Seventh-place finishers in every race class walked away with US$12,500 ($1.9 million) with Jamaicans Jodean Williams (Ladies’s Brief Sprints), Natoya Goule (Ladies’s Brief Distance), Omar McLeod (Males’s Brief Hurdles) and Assinie Wilson (Males’s Lengthy Hurdles) all ending in that place.

Nikisha Pryce (Ladies’s Lengthy Sprints), Zandrion Barnes (Males’s Lengthy Sprints) and Orlando Bennett (Males’s Brief Hurldes) all completed eighth of their respective classes, which was ok for a US$10,000 (1.5 million) take house.

— Andre Lowe