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14 Olympic and 27 world champions to compete at IAAF Birmingham Diamond League

Xinhua, June 6, 2015 Adjust font size:

A total of 14 Olympic and 27 world champions will participate in the IAAF Birmingham Diamond League on Sunday June 7, organizers has announced.

Jessica Ennis-Hill, the women's heptathlon gold winner in the London Olympics, will compete in the 100m hurdles and shot put events. She has just completed her first heptathlon since London 2012 in Gotzis last weekend.

Mo Farah, who won the men's 5000m and 10,000m at both London Olympics and Moscow worlds, will step down to the 1,500m and Greg Rutherford, the men's long jump Olympic gold medalist, will contest his favorite event.

The women's 100m hurdles will be fiercely competitive with Ennis-Hill being joined by Olympic champion Sally Pearson of Australia, world champion Brianna Rollins of the United States, Britain's reigning European champion Tiffany Porter and rising star Jasmin Stowers, who shot to seventh all time in the world with a time of 12.35 at the Doha leg of the IAAF Diamond League.

In the women's 200m, eight-time world champion and reigning Olympic champion Allyson Felix of the United States will go head to head with Jamaica's world champion and Olympic silver medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

American Christian Taylor, the 2011 world champion and 2012 Olympic champion, will compete in the triple jump after elevating himself to fourth in the world all time lists with a jump of 18.04m in Doha. Enditem