Carmelita Jeter winning gold from Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce in the women's 100m final in Daegu (© Getty Images)
Reigning World champion Carmelita Jeter and Olympic champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce will headline the 100m dash at the adidas Grand Prix, the sixth stop on the Samsung Diamond League series, in New York on 9 June.
On her way to becoming the one of the premiere 100m runners, the 32-year-old Jeter won gold at the 2011 IAAF World Championships at 100m and silver at 200m, as well as anchoring the U.S. squad to a gold medal in the 4x100m relay. The second-fastest woman in history with a personal best of 10.64, Jeter was dominant from start to finish last year, winning 11 of her 12 competitions at 100m.
Fraser-Pryce, 25, is the reigning Olympic gold medallist and 2009 World Champion at both 100m and the 4x100m Relay. Finishing fourth, just 1/100ths of a second behind Kelly-Ann Baptiste in Daegu for bronze last summer, Fraser-Pryce nonetheless ran the first leg on the Jamaican 4x100m team that set a national record on the way to winning a silver medal.
Baptiste, from Trinidad and Tobago, is the 2011 World Championships bronze medallist at 100m. The 25-year-old’s personal best of 10.84 is a national record.
In the men's a resurgent Jeremy Wariner will return to Icahn Stadium to defend his 400-meter title.
On the men’s side a resurgent Jeremy Wariner will return to Icahn Stadium to defend his 400m title while looking toward his third Olympics. The 28-year-old already has four Olympic medals: gold at 400m in 2004 and in the 4x400m relay in 2004 and 2008, and silver at 400m in 2008. He also owns five World championships titles, including individual gold in 2005 and 2007.
On the comeback trail from a torn toe ligament that kept him out of the World championships last summer, Wariner anchored his Central Texas All-Star 4x400-meter relay team to victory on 31 March 31 at the Texas Relays. He and his wife, Sarah, married last November, are expecting their first child in October.
In its eighth year as one of the premier track and field events in the world, the adidas Grand Prix, at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island, will feature dozens of Olympic medallists and World champions, including the reigning men's World champion at 100m, Jamaica’s Yohan Blake.
Organisers for the IAAF
Samsung Diamond League - 2012 Calendar
Doha, QAT - 11 May
Shanghai, CHN - 19 May
Rome, ITA - 31 May
Eugene, USA - 2 June
Oslo, NOR - 7 June
New York, USA - 9 June
Paris, FRA - 6 July
London, GBR - 13 / 14 July
Monaco, MON - 20 July
Stockholm, SWE - 17 August
Lausanne, SUI - 23 August
Birmingham, GBR - 26 August
Zurich, SUI - 30 August
Brussels, BEL - 7 September