Doha, Qatar - Three 2009 World champions and one reigning Olympic champion were announced as the latest high profile entries for the kick-off meeting of the IAAF Diamond League in Doha on Friday 14 May.

World 1500m champion Maryam Jamal of Bahrain, Poland’s World Pole Vault champion Anna Rogowska, reigning World 800m champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi of South Africa and Olympic Shot Put champion Tomasz Majewski are the latest entries to the Doha cast which at the moment includes 16 Olympic and 28 World champions.

The latest preliminary entries also include 32 athletes who have won at least one medal at the World Indoor Championships, 14 of them at the most recent edition in Doha in March, said Abdulla Ahmed Al-Zaini, the President of the Qatar Athletics Federation and the Director of the Doha meeting.

Jamal has the best of memories from Doha. In 2006 she won both the 800m and 1500m races at the Asian Games in the Qatari capital. Last summer in Berlin, Jamal defended the World 1500m title she first won in Osaka in 2007.

Rogowska, like all other women vaulters, has lived in the shadow of World record holder Yelena Isinbayeva. But the popular Pole took full advantage of the opportunity to take the World title following the Russian’s no-height in Berlin.  Rogowska is aiming for a second victory in Doha, after her winning performance in 2006, when she set the current meeting record of 4.63m.

Although he has been among the finest 800m runners in the world for most of the past decade, Mulaudzi will be making only his second visit to Doha. In 2001 when he was just 21, the experienced South African notched one of his first international victories.

Majewski, who triumphed in Beijing, will have a tough task to accomplish in Doha, as athletes from the USA haven’t lost in Qatar since 2005! Christian Cantwell, whose presence in the Doha Diamond League is confirmed, extended that sequence at the World Indoor Championships where he beat Majewski, although the Pole did struggle with injury throughout the winter. But an injury-free Majewski will surely be a serious test for US dominance at the event.

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