ATHLOS League in 2026: Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, and Davis-Woodhall team up as advisor owners in new track competition

Starting in 2026, ATHLOS will run a team-based women’s track and field league with multiple meets featuring Olympic champions Sha'Carri Richardson, Gabby Thomas, and Tara Davis-Woodhall as advisor owners.

The announcement was made after world 100m champion Richardson was unveiled as the latest headliner for this year's meet in October.

Athlos founder Alexis Ohanian said in a statement: “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. We were focused on bringing them into the League as founding owners to ensure we’re building a League that our athletes will love.”

The new developments indicate that Richardson, Thomas, and Davis-Woodhall will serve as advisor-owners in an expansion to a team-based women’s track and field league with multiple meets in 2026.

This means ATHLOS will shift to a team-based model “designed for and by athletes, tailored to a modern fanbase” and will have multiple meets in different cities + a final championship event after the conclusion of the World Athletics season.

The record-breaking women’s-only track day meet started by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, successfully debuted on September 26, 2024, at the Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island in New York City, and featured some of the fastest women in the world including Olympic champions and World Record holders.

With an offer of the largest-ever purse for a women-only competition of $60,000 for each race winner, the organizers modernized the sport by combining "competition with entertainment, including a performance by top musician Megan Thee Stallion after the last race, that drew “near-universal praise” from participants and fans globally.

The second edition will be held at the same venue in New York, slated for October 2025.