Brittany Brown leads Athlos NYC girls's observe meet winners

Olympic bronze medalist Brittany Brown was a giant winner of the primary Athlos NYC all-women’s observe meet in New York Metropolis.

Brown took the 200m over Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas, plus completed second within the 100m, to pocket $85,000 in prize cash and a Tiffany & Co. crown given to every of the six race winners.

Within the ultimate occasion of the evening, Brown clocked 22.18 seconds within the 200m, overtaking Thomas by three hundredths at Icahn Stadium.

About 80 minutes earlier, Brown was runner-up within the 100m received by Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith of Cote d’Ivoire in 10.98.

“The primary inaugural occasion for all girls, I am simply actually appreciative of everybody supporting us girls,” Brown mentioned on the published.

Brown’s current success is a product of perseverance. After making her first Olympic crew at age 29, she famous that she by no means received a state title in highschool, did not go to a “huge observe faculty” for school (Iowa), by no means received an NCAA title and wasn’t signed to a shoe contract to start out her skilled profession.

She labored as a babysitter, a restaurant bus woman and a caregiver for individuals coping with Alzheimer’s and dementia to help her observe profession early on.

She received 200m silver on the 2019 World Championships, then went 5 years earlier than her subsequent world championship medal within the Paris Olympic 200m.

“I really feel like this sport is de facto altering and rising,” Brown mentioned. “I am excited to be part of it. This can be a entire new occasion. We tried one thing new. I am glad to be part of attempting. I really feel like so many individuals simply sit and discuss, OK, let’s do that, let’s do that. However nobody’s doing it. So I am glad to be part of individuals doing the work.”

In different occasions, Tokyo Olympic gold medalist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico received the 100m hurdles in 12.36 seconds, beating a area that included Paris Olympic champion Masai Russell, who was third in 12.44.

Kenyan Religion Kipyegon prolonged her three-year win streak within the 1500m, pulling away from Ethiopian Diribe Welteji within the final 200 meters.

Within the 400m, Marileidy Paulino of the Dominican Republic capped an undefeated season with a victory in 49.59, distancing runner-up Alexis Holmes by 4 tenths.

The Athlos meet was created by Alexis Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder who beforehand invested in girls’s sports activities with the NWSL membership Angel Metropolis FC. Athlos is derived from the Greek phrase for athlete.

The meet mixed competitors with leisure, together with a efficiency by Megan Thee Stallion after the final race.

Ohanian said earlier Thursday that “we’re completely doing this once more subsequent 12 months.”

“The naked minimal is that this is among the most fun sporting occasions in New York sports activities,” he mentioned. “I wished to seize, like, the U.S. Open evening match power. I wished to seize if we are able to get just a little little bit of the New York Knicks or Liberty playoff match power. And possibly throw in just a little little bit of music pageant power.”

Athlos NYC Observe Meet Outcomes

100m (wind +.1 m/s)
1. Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith (CIV) — 10.98
2. Brittany Brown (USA) — 11.05
3. Candace Hill (USA) — 11.14
4. Daryll Neita (GBR) — 11.29
5. Zoe Hobbs (NZL) — 11.38
6. Celera Barnes (USA) — 11.41

100m Hurdles (wind +.6 m/s)
1. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn (PUR) — 12.36
2. Alaysha Johnson (USA) — 12.43
3. Masai Russell (USA) — 12.44
4. Tonea Marshall (USA) — 12.51
5. Danielle Williams (JAM) — 12.56
6. Charisma Taylor (BAH) — 13.58

200m (wind +.7m/s)
1. Brittany Brown (USA) — 22.18
2. Gabby Thomas (USA) — 22.21
3. Anavia Battle (USA) — 22.34
4. Jenna Prandini (USA) — 22.62.
5. Tamara Clark (USA) — 22.83
6. Torrie Lewis (AUS) — 23.53

400m
1. Marileidy Paulino (DOM) — 49.59
2. Alexis Holmes (USA) — 49.99
3. Salwa Eid Naser (BRN) — 50.40
4. Shamier Little (USA) — 51.28
5. Lieke Klaver (NED) — 51.82
6. Lynna Irby-Jackson (USA) — 51.83

800m
1. Tsige Dugume (ETH) — 1:57.43
2. Mary Moraa (KEN) — 1:58.05
3. Natoya Goule-Toppin (JAM) — 1:58.63
4. Addy Wiley (USA) — 1:58.93
5. Halimah Nakaayi (UGA) — 1:59.62
6. Nia Akins (USA) — 2:01.32

1500m
1. Religion Kipyegon (KEN) — 4:04.79
2. Diribe Welteji (ETH) — 4:05.58
3. Susan Ejore-Sanders (KEN) — 4:06.25
4. Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) — 4:06.81
5. Cory McGee (USA) — 4:07.09
6. Katie Snowden (GBR) — 4:07.57

NBC Olympic analysis contributed to this report.