Mondo Duplantis, Ryan Crouser head the line-ups because the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold sequence strikes to Ostrava for the Golden Spike assembly on Tuesday (June 27).
Pole vaulter Duplantis is unbeaten this yr and set a world file of 6.22m in Clermont-Ferrand in February, whereas Crouser has already proven good type in 2023 with a world file of 23.56m in California in Could.
Assembly information look positive to fall with the pole vault mark being 5.93m held by Sam Kendricks, whereas Crouser holds the lads’s shot put meet file already with 22.43m from three years in the past.
Ryan Crouser (Errol Anderson)
Lamecha Girma set a world 3000m steeplechase file of seven:52.11 in Paris earlier this month however in Ostrava he drops all the way down to 1500m to tackle fellow Ethiopian Melese Nberet and Portugal’s Isaac Nadar amongst others.
Recent from his championship file on the European Workforce Championships, Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia is within the males’s discus hoping to proceed his good 2023 type.
Kristjan Ceh (Getty)
The javelin fields are additionally robust with the lads’s occasion seeing two-time world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada in opposition to Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic, whereas the ladies’s occasion consists of European champion Elina Tzenkgo of Greece, world bronze medallist Haruka Kitaguchi of Japan and two-time Olympic champion Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic, who’s popping out of retirement aged 41 for this occasion.
There are a selection of Brits in motion too. Neil Gourley, Ben Pattison and Elliot Giles run the 800m in a area that features world finalist Slimane Moula of Algeria.
Ben Pattison (Continental Tour Gold)
Adam Fogg and George Mills run the lads’s 1500m, whereas Nick Percy and Lawrence Okoye are in motion within the discus and Jessie Knight goes within the 400m hurdles.
Carys McAulay and Laviai Nielsen are in a robust girls’s 400m that options Natalia Kaczmarek of Poland and former world champion Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain.
Cindy Sember is one other Brit all the way down to compete and faces a tricky dash hurdles line up led by world champion Tobi Amusan of Nigeria and Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico.
For viewers within the UK the occasion is reside on Viaplay from 5-7.30pm.
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