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Canadas Andre de Grasse and Jerome Blake took the sixth and seventh place on Sunday in the short sprint group of the Herren Short Sprints at the end of Grand Slam Track in Miramar, Florida.

In the 200-meter race, the 29-year-old de Grasse from Markham, Ontario, took fourth place with a best of the season of 20.23, while the 29-year-old Blake from Kelowna, BC, took sixth place in 20.40 seconds.

The podium was the short sprint winner of the meeting, Kenny Bednarek from the United States, and rose in a leading world of 19.84. Zarnell Hughes from Great Britain became second with a time of 20.13 and defended himself just Jamaica's diagonal Seville, which ran at the same time.

On Saturday Bednarek won the 100 in a time of 9.79 – a race Blake and de Grasse took the seventh or eighth place.

Bednarek claimed his second short sprint for men after winning in April at the opening discussion in Kingston, Jamaica.

De Grasse and Blake, members of the Canadian Olympic gold medal win 4×100 team at the Paris Games, both celebrated their debuts for Grand Slam at the weekend.

The middle runner of Toronto, Lucia Stafford, was last in an area of ​​eight years in the 800 meters of women per day after sixth place in the 1,500.

The 26-year-old, who raced this year with her first Outdoor 800 this year, was on the back of the pack with about 250 meters in the first of two 400 m rounds and could not climb higher.

Stafford's final time of two minutes 4.93 seconds was the slowest in the distance since July 28, 2018 when she went 2: 05.62 in Belgium.

The two -time Olympian drove outdoors outdoors in 2024 with one season on June 4th at the Royal City Inferno Athletics Festival in Guelph.

Mary Moraa von Kenya won the race on Sunday in 1: 59.51 against American Nikki Hiltz (1: 59.75) and Ethiopia Freweyni Hailu (1: 59.84), who also won the short -haul title in Florida on Saturday.

Stafford, who was last in the two-day competition, will take home $ 10,000 for her performance.

Grand Slam Track is the idea of ​​American Sprint Great, Michael Johnson. The four-stop tour also organizes events in Philadelphia (May 30th to June 1) and Los Angeles (June 27th to 29th).

In the Grand Slam route, the athletes run twice in various events during a three-day meeting and earn points that score points on the basis of their placement in every race. The runner with the most cumulative points of their two races wins their group and the main prize of $ 100,000.

The overall price pool for the Grand Slam Track Events is $ 12.6 million.

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