Athlos races outside the United States for the first time on Friday night, when 42 women contest seven events at the StoneX Stadium in north London with $65,000 going to the winner of each one. The league called off its New York date earlier this month, which leaves London as the whole of the 2026 season.
Alexis Ohanian started Athlos in 2024 as a one-night, women-only meet at Icahn Stadium, built around a short program and prize money the rest of the sport does not pay. The format has barely changed since: six athletes per event, seven events, no heats, the whole thing done inside two and a half hours. The prize money has gone up sharply. First place in London pays $65,000, second $35,000, then $20,000, $15,000, $10,000 and $6,000 for sixth, which comes to $151,000 in every event and a little over $1 million across the night. Athletes also hold equity in the league, and each winner gets a crown made by Tiffany & Co. Athlos had announced a $2.1 million pool when 2026 was still a two-meet season.
The New York meet, set for Icahn Stadium on Oct. 2, was scrapped after athletes told the league it sat in an impossible spot on the calendar, a week behind the Diamond League final and the World Athletics Ultimate Championship. Athlos still owes the Randall’s Island Park Alliance a $75,000 deposit on a stadium it will not use, Front Office Sports reported, and Ohanian says the league intends to be back in New York in 2027.
Athlos London Schedule and Start Times
Doors open at 5 p.m. BST at the StoneX Stadium in Barnet, the Saracens rugby ground about an hour from central London, with free shuttles from Mill Hill East and Edgware on the Underground and Mill Hill Broadway on National Rail. An hour of schoolgirls’ races runs before the professionals start.
| Time (BST) | Time (ET) | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 5 p.m. | 12 p.m. | Doors open, DJ set and red carpet arrivals |
| 6:18 p.m. | 1:18 p.m. | Presentation begins |
| 6:20 p.m. | 1:20 p.m. | Youth girls’ 100m, race one |
| 6:25 p.m. | 1:25 p.m. | Youth girls’ 100m, race two |
| 7:08 p.m. | 2:08 p.m. | 100m hurdles |
| 7:22 p.m. | 2:22 p.m. | Long jump, rounds one and two |
| 7:44 p.m. | 2:44 p.m. | 100m |
| 7:57 p.m. | 2:57 p.m. | Long jump, final round |
| 8:14 p.m. | 3:14 p.m. | Mile |
| 8:36 p.m. | 3:36 p.m. | 400m |
| 8:55 p.m. | 3:55 p.m. | 800m |
| 9:11 p.m. | 4:11 p.m. | 200m |
| 9:22 p.m. | 4:22 p.m. | Closing celebration |
Live results go up on the meet’s PrimeTime Timing page as the evening runs.
How to Watch Athlos London
In the United Kingdom, the BBC has it live from 7 p.m. BST on Red Button, iPlayer and the BBC Sport website and app, the broadcaster’s first deal with Athlos. Aurora Media Worldwide is producing the host feed, which Athlos says will reach more than 150 countries.
American viewers get it on ION and Bounce, with ESPN streaming from 2 p.m. ET. Eurosport holds the rights everywhere else in Europe and beIN carries it across the Middle East and North Africa.
There are two free options worth knowing about. Athlos is streaming the meet on X everywhere in the world, and on YouTube everywhere except Europe, where the Eurosport deal blocks it. LetsRun pulled the country-by-country list together first.
Who Is Racing at Athlos London
Keely Hodgkinson runs the 800m, the last race of a season she has spent managing a hamstring she tore before the European final in Birmingham in August. Lined up against her is Lilian Odira, the Kenyan who beat her to the world title in Tokyo last September in a championship record of 1:54.62, in a final where three women went under 1:55. Second that night was Georgia Hunter Bell, who is in London too, though she is running the mile.
That mile is the deepest event on the card. Hunter Bell, Nikki Hiltz, Jess Hull and Klaudia Kazimierska have spent the summer beating one another in different combinations, and Hunter Bell told Athletics Weekly it will be strange to be back on a track “as a professional athlete competing” rather than chasing a championship place. Elsewhere, Sha’Carri Richardson and Daryll Neita meet in the 100m, Gabby Thomas takes the 200m, and Marileidy Paulino and Amber Anning share the 400m. Rhasidat Adeleke is also on the card.
Two of the names on the original announcement will not be there. Masai Russell, the 100m hurdles world record holder, pulled out on Sept. 15, writing that she and her team believed it “the best decision for me and my body as we look toward what’s next.” Tobi Amusan leads the hurdles field without her. Tara Davis-Woodhall withdrew a week earlier, her season ended by a concussion from a head-on car crash, which leaves the long jump to Claire Bryant, Monae’ Nichols and a field drawn mostly from Europe.
Ohanian has said more announcements are coming on where Athlos goes after this.
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