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Tribune News NetworkDohaQatar’s world and Olympic champion high jump star Mutaz Essa Barshim at the Wanda Diamond League meeting to be held in Monaco on Wednesday.Barshim heads the field assembled in Monaco – which includes the top six from Oregon world championships. Barshim renews his rivalry with fellow Olympic gold medallist Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and fellow world medallists South Korean Woo Sanghyeok and Ukrainian Andriy Protsenko.Meanwhile in other disciplines, the Jamaican pair of Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Shericka Jackson will extend their rivalry in Monaco, fresh from respective victories in the 100m and 200m in Silesia at the weekend, where world champion Fraser-Pryce set a world-leading time of 10.66 to win the short sprint.Other world champions on the track in Monaco include two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo, in an intriguing match-up with USA’s Olympic 200m bronze medallist Gabby Thomas and the new Commonwealth Games champion Sada Williams over one lap.Olympic bronze medallist Raevyn Rogers heads the women’s 800m field, while Olympic champion Peruth Chematai will face a tough test in the women’s 3000m steeplechase, with world bronze medallist Mekides Abebe and new Commonwealth Games champion Jackline Chepkoech on the starting line.As many as 14 titles will be decided with other world champions including American Grant Holloway (men’s 110m hurdles), two-time Olympic champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of the Bahamas (women’s 400m), Venezuela’s Yulimar Rojas (women’s triple jump) and Australian Kelsey-Lee Barber (women’s javelin) also in action.
