Broadbell, Holloway clash again

Jamaica’s Rasheed Broadbell will be seeking to score back-to-back wins over American Grant Holloway when the two top sprint hurdlers clash in tomorrow’s Silesia Kamila Skolimowska Memorial Diamond League meet in Poland.

On Thursday Broadbell, the bronze medallist at the Paris Olympic Games, upset the Olympic champion with a terrific final burst in the 110m hurdles at the Lausanne Diamond League and in current form could go under the 13.10 seconds he clocked in the Swiss city and defeat the American for the second time in three days.

Broadbell is one of 21 Jamaicans listed for the meet. Also down for the 110m hurdles is Orlando Bennett.

Sharing the spotlight with Broadbell is Olympic 100m silver medallist Kishane Thompson. Thompson, the world leader in the 100m with 9.77 seconds, will contest the event for the first time since he lost by a very narrow margin to American Noah Lyles in Paris. Tomorrow he will face Paris bronze medallist Fred Kerley and his compatriot Christian Coleman, along with Ferdinand Omanyala of Kenya and two other Jamaicans, Ackeem Blake and Rohan Watson.

In the 400m hurdles Jamaicans Roshawn Clarke and Jaheel Hyde will face world record holder and Paris silver medallist Karsten Warholm of Norway.

Surprise Olympic shot put bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell and high jump finalist Romaine Beckford will also be in action.

Rushell Clayton, Jamaica’s best female finisher in Lausanne with a second place in the women’s 400m hurdles, will lead four Jamaicans in the event. Shiann Salmon, Janieve Russell and Andrenette Knight are also down to compete in this event. Lausanne winner Femke Bol of the Netherlands and American Anna Cockrell, a surprise silver medallist in Paris, will also be in action.

Following her third-place finish in her debut Diamond League appearance on Thursday, national champion Ackera Nugent will face another strong field in the 100m hurdles. There will be two semifinals for the event which has attracted 18 athletes.

Seven of the finalists from the Olympic Games, including gold medallist Masai Russell of the United States, Cyrena Mayela Samba of France and bronze medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico, a winner in Lausanne two days ago, are in the event. Jamaicans Danielle Williams and Yanique Thompson are among the entries.

Olympic Games 100m finalist Tia Clayton who was seventh in the women’s event in Paris will be hoping for a better result after a fifth-place finish in the event in her debut Diamond League appearance in Lausanne. She will have to contend once again with Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith who was an impressive winner in Lausanne. Jamaica’s Natasha Morrison will also be in action in the event.

Olympic Games triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts and finalist Ackelia Smith will be the two Jamaicans in action in women’s field events at the meet.

The first Diamond League event, the women’s 400m hurdles, starts at 9 a.m. Jamaica time.