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World Champ Sum to start season in Shanghai Diamond League

Xinhua, April 10, 2015 Adjust font size:

World champions Eunice Sum will launch her season with a two lap race in Shanghai, China on May 18.

Sum, who intends to defend her crown at the World Championships in Beijing in August, will be keen to gauge her performance against spirited challenge.

"It is the start for me. I have been out for sometime and I want to see how I will perform in active competition," she said in Nairobi on Thursday.

Sum, followed the footsteps of her mentor Janeth Jepkosgei to win in Moscow in 2013. Jepkosgei, who won gold in Osaka, took silver in Beijing Olympics and Berlin worlds.

Also returning to action will be World Cross Country Champion Agnes Tirop. The 19-year-old, who won gold in Guiyang last month, returns in China for the Shanghai Diamond League meeting.

She will, however, be competing in the 5000m, the event in which she has twice won world junior bronze.

Other top world athletes like Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce and Veronica Campbell Brown will compete in the 100m at the Shanghai Diamond League.

There will be more battles between world and Olympic champions in the men's long jump and women's triple jump; Greg Rutherford will face Aleksandr Menkov, while Olga Rypakova will take on Caterina Ibarguen. Endite