ZURICH, Switzerland, CMC – St Lucian Olympic champion Julien Alfred will take to the monitor for the primary time in over a month when she competes on the 14th Weltklasse Zurich League on Thursday in Switzerland.
In what is anticipated to be a aggressive girls’s 100-meter occasion, Alfred will face off towards Sha’Carri Richardson of the USA, Marie Josee Ta Lou-Smith of Cote d’Ivoire, and Jamaica’s Tia Clayton.
Alfred, 23, has but to compete since profitable gold within the 100 meters and silver within the 200 meters on the Paris Olympics.
Additionally within the line-up will probably be Nice Britain’s Diana Asher-Smith, who’s coming off a win on the Lausanne Diamond League, the place she posted a season’s finest 10.88.
A number of different Jamaican athletes are additionally collaborating within the occasion, which is the final alternative for athletes to earn factors and qualify for the collection last in Brussels from September 13 to 14.
Diamond League chief Rushell Clayton, Andrenette Knight, Janieve Russell, and Olympic Video games finalist Shiann Salmon, who’ve all booked their last spots for Brussels, are right down to run within the girls’s 400m hurdles.
With world chief Ackera Nugent taking a break earlier than the grand last, world champion Danielle Williams would be the lone Jamaican within the girls’s 100m hurdles.
Rasheed Broadbell, who copped bronze on the Paris Olympics, will renew his rivalry with American Grant Holloway within the males’s 110-meter hurdles together with compatriot Hansle Parchment, and Roshawn Clarke will compete within the males’s 400-meter hurdles.
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