Heading into its second 12 months, the women-only monitor meet Athlos has secured a serious sponsor to make sure athletes receives a commission—quick. On Thursday, co-founder Alexis Ohanian introduced that Money App would be the official funds sponsor, promising what he calls “a sooner future.”
Final 12 months’s payouts took three enterprise days, which Ohanian says wasn’t ok. “This 12 months, Money App is enabling instant prize funds for all eligible athletes the second outcomes are confirmed,” he stated.
We’re partnering with @CashApp as our official Funds Associate to deliver a sooner future to trace & area – on the monitor and on the end line – introducing a brand new mannequin for the way efficiency turns into pay.
This 12 months, Money App is enabling instant prize funds for all eligible… pic.twitter.com/41RvO66Wpo
— ATHLOS (@athlos) October 2, 2025
The partnership doesn’t cease there. Money App has additionally put up a $250,000 world-record bonus for any athlete who breaks a worldwide mark at Athlos NYC on Oct. 11. Meaning the cell cost service may need to maintain a switch prepared for three-time Olympic champion Religion Kipyegon, who has already rewritten the ladies’s 1,500m report as soon as this 12 months. At Athlos, she’s going to compete within the girls’s mile.
Though it hasn’t been straight said, the transfer from Athlos comes within the wake of the Grand Slam Monitor bills scandal, the place athletes and distributors are nonetheless ready on an estimated $19 million in unpaid payments after an investor pulled out in April. Grand Slam Monitor founder and American Olympian Michael Johnson promised athletes funds by the top of July, after which by September, but athletes and distributors are nonetheless ready.
Athlos launched final September at New York Metropolis’s Icahn Stadium and reportedly drew practically three million viewers throughout X, YouTube, ESPN+ and DAZN worldwide. With a record-breaking US$663,000 prize purse (the biggest ever for a women-only monitor occasion), it set the tone for a brand new mannequin in monitor and area. This 12 months, organizers are promising to go “greater and higher.”
The one-night monitor occasion has already landed among the sport’s high expertise for 2025, together with newly-minted double world dash champion Melissa Jefferson-Wood, 800m star Keely Hodgkinson and Olympic lengthy soar champion Tara Davis-Woodhall.
Though there will likely be sooner cost, all awards at Athlos will nonetheless be topic to anti-doping guidelines and World Athletics report ratification.
