Gabby Thomas, Sha’Carri Richardson, And Tara Davis-Woodhall Join ATHLOS Track And Field League’s Ownership Group
Track stars Sha’Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, and Tara Davis-Woodhall are investing in familiar territory.
What Is ATHLOS
The trio has teamed up to join the ownership group of the ATHLOS track and field league. ATHLOS, launched in 2024 by Alexis Ohanian, Reddit founder and Serena Williams‘ husband, began as an all-women’s track and field meet. According to Forbes, ATHLOS will return to New York, NY, for its 2025 meet but will scale into a full-fledged league starting next year. The team-based league’s website states that it will feature some of the fastest athletes in the world, span multiple cities, and build momentum toward a championship event.
“ATHLOS is shifting gears, moving from a solo spotlight to team-centered showdowns where participating athletes will compete for teams, not just times. It’s still blazing fast, but with teams to cheer for,” the website mentions.
ATHLOS offers $60,000 in prize money to the winner of each event across the meet, and 10% of all event revenues goes back to participating athletes, states Reuters.
“I asked these women, I was like, ‘Hey, so what is your top prize at the end of a season for winning?’ And they said $30,000. And I said, ‘Great, I’m going to double it for one single race,’” Ohanian told the outlet.
Becoming Advisor-Owners
As for Olympic sprinters Richardson and Thomas and long-jumper Davis-Woodhall, the focus of their participation for now will be to provide feedback as the league is being developed. They will also serve as advisor-owners.
“Gabby, Sha’Carri, and Tara represent a new generation of athletes who have put this sport on their shoulders and deserve to be compensated for being the standard-bearers,” Ohanian explained, per the Hartfort Courant. “We were focused on bringing them into the League as founding owners to ensure we’re building a League that our athletes will love.”
Kayla Green, Athlos chief media officer, commented, per City AM:
“We’re really at that stage of taking those steps to make sure that as we’re building this vision and the details around the vision, that we’re doing it with the athletes at the center.”
