- Ese Brume tops listed for long jump
The rivalry between world champion and world record-holder Tobi Amusan and Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn will be renewed again at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting in Szekesfehervar, Hungary.
It would be recalled that Camacho-Quinn ran 12.40 secs to beat Amusan in the 100m hurdles at the 2023 Lausanne Diamond League meeting on June 30 and the Puerto Rican holds the meeting record from 2022, held off the challenge from the Nigerian , who finished second with a season-best matching time of 12.47 seconds.
The Lausanne win ensured Camacho-Quinn continued her winning streak, marking her eighth successive victory in the 2023 season and she holds the world lead time of 12.31 secs, clocked 12.40 secs in the 100m hurdles event, despite running in a slight -1.4 m/s headwind.
Undeterred by the defeat Amusan returned to the track at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm running an impressive time of 12.52 secs to claim her first Diamond League win of the season on July 2.
And on July 18 at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial, Amusan and Camacho-Quinn will go head-to-head alongside 2019 world champion Nia Ali; American Alaysha Johnson and Poland’s European champion Pia Skrzyszowska in the high-quality field.
In the women’s long jumps, Commonwealth champion Ese Brume tops the list of contenders for the title while in the men’s long jump Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou will slug it out against 2019 world champion Tajay Gayle.
Three other global champions will be in action on the track – world 200m champion will contest her specialist distance, while Olympic 400m champion Steven Gardiner will line up against Hungarian record-holder Attila Molnar over one lap of the track.
World and Olympic champion Emmanuel Korir is also confirmed to compete in the men’s 800m.