Timothy Cheruiyot announced for Miami Grand Slam Track

Kenya’s Timothy Cheruiyot, the 2019 1500m world champion and 2021 Olympic silver medalist, has been announced as one of the challengers in the Men's Short Distance as Grand Slam Track action heads to Miami from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 May.

Grand Slam Track, a professional track and field league, first announced in 2024 by American former Olympic champion sprinter Michael Johnson saw its debut event held from 4 to 6 April in Kingston, Jamaica with Emmanuel Wanyonyi the first Kenyan to record a victory, this time in the 1500m.

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Cheruiyot has kept a low profile since ending his 2024 season with a second-place finish at the Brussels Diamond League. In 2025, he raced at the National Cross Country championship in Nairobi and is yet to begin his outdoor season.

In January, Cheruiyot had gone down to South Africa where he had a three-week training stint with Laros’ group, which is overseen by Polish coach Tomasz Lewandowski, in Dullstroom

He later travelled to Potchefstroom, he put in another three weeks of altitude before returning home.

Cheruiyot, has worked with coach Bernard Ouma at Rongai Athletics Club since 2014 and has been one of the world’s top 1500m runners throughout much of that span.

From 2017-22, Cheruiyot won four Diamond League titles and finished no lower than sixth in four global championship appearances, including three medals. However, in 2023, Cheruiyot failed to make the World Championship final while battling an injury to his patellar tendon.

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Cheruiyot showed improved form last year, running 3:28:71 to rank top five in the world for 2024. He finished second in four Diamond Leagues, including Oslo, where he was just .03 behind a diving Jakob Ingebrigtsen, and the final in Brussels, where he edged out Olympic champion Cole Hocker by .01.

But Cheruiyot failed to win a Diamond League for the third consecutive year and came away disappointed with his Olympic performance, finishing just 11th in Paris.

“Tim wants to do things a little bit different and he needs to think out of the box a little bit more,” Cheruiyot’s agent Malcolm Anderson told LetsRun.com. “He’s had a fantastic run with a structure in place for many, many years in Nairobi. But he’s at a stage where you have to make a few adjustments.”

Additional reporting by Letsrun.com