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The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

GRAND SLAM TRACK: MIAMI POST MEET SHOW DAY 2 — JOSH KERR WINS SLAM + MELISSA JEFFERSON REPEATS AS CHAMPION

The CITIUS MAG Podcast | A Running + Track and Field Show

CITIUS MAG

Running, Sports

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Big names. Big performances. Big moves in the standings. Day 2 in Miami brought the heat and the athletes answered.

Josh Kerr is officially back. After illness and injury slowed the start to his 2025 season, Kerr showed he's back to full strength with a statement in Miami—winning the 1500m, then dropping a 1:45.01 lifetime best in the 800m to edge Marco Arop by just two points in the overall Slam standings.

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden locked up her second Slam title by winning the 100m then coming back for third in the 200m in a lifetime best of 22.15. That was just enough to hold off Gabby Thomas, 18 points to 17.

Ackera Nugent looked sharp with a 12.34 season’s best in the 100m hurdles, but it only got her third. She made up for it in a big way, bouncing back the next day to run 11.09 in the 100m, sealing the overall short hurdles title in dramatic fashion.

Jereem Richards took the long sprints crown with a 19.86 win in the 200m and a 44.32 season’s best in the 400m, finishing with 20 points and $100,000 to show for it.

From comebacks and personal bests to tight title races, Day 2 in Miami delivered—and the momentum is only building.

Catch all the highlights, interviews, and behind-the-scenes moments from Grand Slam Track: Miami as the action continues tomorrow for Day 3. Subscribe, follow, and don’t miss a second.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome back to Miami, Florida, Chris Chavez, alongside Anderson Emerald, Aisha Pratt

0:06.0

Lear, and Eric Jenkins as we unpack day two of Grand Slam Track, Miami, where we had our first

0:14.2

100K checks handed out to some slam champions.

0:18.1

And the coolest part I think about the whole entire thing is that the points

0:21.7

totals for all of these uh groups were pretty different across the board and so we'll unpack

0:26.2

all of that how people uh got into those winning positions but uh eric we'll start with you kind

0:31.3

of an overarching takeaway from day two oh i mean we're talking about how how how Miami seems to have built upon Kingston really well. And

0:41.5

today was even better than yesterday. I felt like as soon as you got in, energy was high, stands

0:46.2

were full. And the races were great. Again, another really good day of racing. All the races were fun.

0:57.2

A bit like, yeah, like the points totals were like all across the board and it was it was very, very fun to watch. Aisha. My favorite part

1:04.7

was scrambling, like the urgency to know the points totals. I think with everybody understanding the concept now,

1:12.7

it's really exciting to think to watch a race to finish

1:15.8

and then everybody's going to the math of who is the winner of the 100K.

1:20.4

It's really fun.

1:21.4

We're lucky that the computers and the scoreboard do it for us very quickly

1:24.5

because I was up at that desk just kind of like chicken scratching like some math and I was like this is what like well I guess like we've had

1:31.5

worse feelings on election nights recently but like election night results and all that

1:36.2

kind of stuff like you're waiting for them to all come in like three seconds thing

1:39.1

Chris is like let's get let's talk politics I Here we go.

1:44.8

I'm going to get called woke again.

1:46.7

Chris is like, look, I talk track all day.

1:49.3

I'm done.

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