SUZHOU, China, CMC – Newly minted girls’s world indoor dash hurdles champion Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas can have her arms full when she faces the 2 different world champions on the World Athletics Diamond League meet on April 27 in China.
Organisers introduced on Wednesday that the three reigning world girls’s world champions within the dash hurdles—all from the Caribbean—Charlton, world champion Danielle Williams of Jamaica, and Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico—will compete head-to-head on the Yangtze Delta Athletics Diamond Gala.
Charlton hopes to say her first Diamond League win this season when she seems to be to switch her world-beating indoor kind into the out of doors season.
The 28-year-old Bahamian twice broke the world indoor 60-meter hurdles file earlier this yr, clocking 7.67 seconds on the Millrose Video games within the American metropolis of New York and seven.65 seconds to take gold on the World Indoor Championships within the Scottish metropolis of Glasgow.
Williams, 31, regained the world title final yr within the Hungarian capital of Budapest, eight years after her first world gold within the Chinese language capital of Beijing.
She was topped a Diamond League champion 5 years in the past after two triumphs on the World Championships.
Camacho-Quinn, 27, is a seasoned Diamond League campaigner with no fewer than 9 victories on the circuit over the previous three years.
The Olympic 100-metre hurdles champion and world silver medallist over the gap will likely be hoping to win his first profession Diamond League trophy this yr.
Together with the season opener within the Chinese language metropolis of Xiamen on April 20, the Suzhou-Shanghai assembly would be the second of two occasions within the nation that kick off the Diamond League season.
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