Jamaica’s World Indoor 60-metre bronze medallist Ackeem Blake will face off against world indoor 60m champion Christian Coleman of the USA and Kenya’s leading sprinter holder Ferdinand Omanyala in the 100m at the Prefontaine Classic meeting in Eugene on Saturday 25 May.

Blake has beaten the American Coleman four times over the distance. He secured a win last year at the USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix in Los Angeles, California, setting a personal best (PB) of 9.89 seconds. Coleman placed third in 9.91 seconds, sharing the time with his second-placed American compatriot Cravont Charleston.

The Wanda Diamond League event will also feature 100-metre world champion Sha’Carri Richardson, who will line up against world indoor 60-metre champion Julien Alfred of St Lucia and African 100-m record-holder Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast in the short sprint.

Richardson sped to victory over 100m at last year’s World Championships in Budapest, setting a PB of 10.65 to equal the championship record, and later anchored the USA to gold in the 4x100m. She has yet to run a 100m this season.

Alfred made history earlier this year at the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, when she became the first St Lucian to win a global senior title in athletics, clocking 6.98secs. So far this season she has run 11.15secs in the 100m, placing fourth at the Texas Invitational in the US.

Global medallists Erriyon Knighton and Kenny Bednarek of the USA and Letsile Tebogo of Botswana are slated to clash in the men’s 200m against.

Knighton – who has a lifetime best of 19.49 – took silver in that discipline at last year’s World Championships, earning his second global medal before even turning 20.

Tebogo is similarly prodigious. He won back-to-back world U20 titles over 100m in 2021 and 2022, then claimed world 100m silver and 200m bronze in Budapest last year, just weeks after turning 20. His PB of 19.50 is just 0.01 shy of Knighton’s.

Bednarek claimed Olympic silver in 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, and followed it with world silver in 2022. Along with Tebogo, Bednarek is one of a small number of men who have broken 10 seconds for 100m, 20 seconds for 200m and 45 seconds for 400m.