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Heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be part of an innovative long-jump competition at the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday.
Instead of the event being decided by the best effort from six rounds, the top three jumpers after five rounds will then contest a one-jump final.
Also in the field are Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen and world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk.
In-form Scot Jemma Reekie, 22, will take on a high-class 800m field. American Raevyn Rogers, who won silver at the World Championships in Doha, will be among Reekie’s opposition, although Ugandan world champion Halimah Nakaayi is absent after coronavirus restrictions forced her to return home after last week’s Diamond League event in Monaco.
Reekie has won all three of her 800m outings this season and will arrive in Sweden off the back of victory in the 1500m in a second-tier event in Poland on Wednesday.
Her training partner Laura Muir, who set a new British 1,000m record in Monaco, is in a 1500m race that also features Kenya’s world 5,000m champion Hellen Obiri, and Shannon Rowbury of the United States.
Norway’s Karsten Warholm competes in the 400m hurdles while fellow world champion Timothy Cheruiyot renews his rivalry with teenage European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1500m.
Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw, who finished fourth in Doha, is in the pole vault competition.
Heptathlon world champion Katarina Johnson-Thompson will be part of an innovative long-jump competition at the Stockholm Diamond League on Sunday.
Instead of the event being decided by the best effort from six rounds, the top three jumpers after five rounds will then contest a one-jump final.
Also in the field are Olympic champion Caterine Ibarguen and world silver medallist Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk.
In-form Scot Jemma Reekie, 22, will take on a high-class 800m field. American Raevyn Rogers, who won silver at the World Championships in Doha, will be among Reekie’s opposition, although Ugandan world champion Halimah Nakaayi is absent after coronavirus restrictions forced her to return home after last week’s Diamond League event in Monaco.
Reekie has won all three of her 800m outings this season and will arrive in Sweden off the back of victory in the 1500m in a second-tier event in Poland on Wednesday.
Her training partner Laura Muir, who set a new British 1,000m record in Monaco, is in a 1500m race that also features Kenya’s world 5,000m champion Hellen Obiri, and Shannon Rowbury of the United States.
Norway’s Karsten Warholm competes in the 400m hurdles while fellow world champion Timothy Cheruiyot renews his rivalry with teenage European champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the 1500m.
Great Britain’s Holly Bradshaw, who finished fourth in Doha, is in the pole vault competition.
