National champions Kishane Thompson and Tina Clayton lead a host of Jamaicans who will compete at the Istvan Gyulai Memorial—a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting—in Budapest on Tuesday.

Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Shericka Jackson, Ackeem Blake, Tajay Gayle, Carey McLeod, Ackera Nugent, Rajindra Campbell and Rusheen McDonald are all down to compete as preparations intensify for the World Championship next month.

Olympic silver medallist Kishane Thompson—with a world-leading time of 9.75—will line up against the meeting record-holder Akani Simbine of South Africa, along with the African record-holder Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya, whose 9.77 makes him the 10th fastest man of all time. American USA’s Ronnie Baker and Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake complete what is a very good lineup.

Multiple world and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is part of a 100m field that also includes fellow Jamaicans Shericka Jackson, the two-time world 200m champion and national champion Tina Clayton, who defeated them both. The field is completed by Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith and USA’s Jacious Sears.

The men’s long jump reunites three of the top four finishers from the 2023 World Championships, led by multiple world and Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou, as he will face the Jamaican duo of Tajay Gayle, the 2019 World champion and the consistent Carey McLeod.

Jamaica’s Rusheen McDonald is still hunting that World Championship qualifying mark of 44.85. But all of this could have been avoided had he run through the line at the Jamaican Championship instead of slowing down while gesticulating and finishing in 44.89.

McDonald will face the likes of world leader Zakithi Nene of South Africa is one of five men in the 400m field with a sub-44-second PB. Olympic bronze medallist Muzala Samukonga, USA’s Khaleb MacRae and Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago could push McDonald to below the qualifying mark.

Jamaica’s Olympic bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell is down for the men’s shot put and will face the likes of Leonardo Fabbri of Italy, the World silver medallist, who has the world-leading mark of 22.82m.

World indoor champion Tom Walsh, meet record holder Joe Kovacs, and world indoor silver medallist Roger Steen will make this a hot event.

The vastly improved Jamaican record-holder Ackera Nugent faces Nadine Visser of the Netherlands in the women’s sprint hurdles, looking to rebound from her surprise loss at the Jamaican Championship.