An exceptional women\u2019s hammer field featuring three of the four women in history to have thrown beyond 80 metres will headline the USATF Lone Star Grand Prix in College Station, Texas, on Saturday (6), the first US-based World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting of 2026.<\/p>\n
All podium placers from the past four global championships \u2014 the past three World Championships and the 2024 Olympic Games \u2014 are set to compete, while the field also includes the top four throwers in the world this year.<\/p>\n
Canada\u2019s Camryn Rogers, the Olympic champion and two-time world champion, leads the field. The second-best thrower in history, Rogers has thrown beyond 80 metres in four of her past five competitions, the latest of which was an 80.09m victory in Turku on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
She will be joined by two other 80-metre throwers: 2022 world champion Brooke Anderson and 2019 world champion DeAnna Price.<\/p>\n
US thrower Rachel Richeson recently improved her PB to 78.95m to consolidate her position at sixth on the world all-time list, while China\u2019s Zhao Jie has set an Asian record of 78.22m this year. Zhao, the world silver medallist and Olympic bronze medallist, will be joined by compatriot Zhang Jiale, the world bronze medallist and world U20 record-holder, who has thrown 77.15m this season.<\/p>\n
Olympic silver medallist Annette Echikunwoke and 2023 world silver medallist Janee Kassanavoid add further depth to a field that would not look out of place in a global final.<\/p>\n
Seville and Thomas headline sprint clashes<\/p>\n
Oblique Seville will contest his first 100m since winning the world title last year in a PB of 9.77.<\/p>\n
The Jamaican faces a field that includes 2021 Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse, 2016 world indoor champion Trayvon Bromell, 2023 world bronze medallist Zharnel Hughes and 9.83 performer Ronnie Baker.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s 200m also features an Olympic champion, with Gabby Thomas lining up after clocking 21.89 earlier this year. She will face Olympic finalist Favour Ofili, Olympic 400m fourth-place finisher Rhasidat Adeleke, world and Olympic finalist Deajah Stevens and Cambrea Sturgis, who has run 21.93 this season.<\/p>\n
USA\u2019s 2022 world 400m champion Michael Norman heads the men\u2019s 200m field, where he will take on Kyree King, Olympic finalists Tapiwanashe Makarawu and Makanakaishe Charamba of Zimbabwe, and Canada\u2019s Aaron Brown.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s 100m, 2023 world 4x100m champion Tamari Davis faces African silver medallist Rosemary Chukwuma, who has a PB of 10.95 and has clocked a wind-assisted 10.81 this year, plus Jamaica\u2019s world 4x100m silver medallist Jodean Williams.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s 400m brings together three winners of individual global titles. World indoor champion Christopher Morales Williams, Olympic champion Quincy Hall and 2023 world champion Antonio Watson will line up alongside Bryce Deadmon, a four-time global relay champion.<\/p>\n
One-lap hurdles add further depth<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s 400m hurdles brings together three athletes with strong global credentials.<\/p>\n
World finalist Caleb Dean has run 47.75 this year, while 2022 world bronze medallist Trevor Bassitt has clocked 47.82. They will face Nigerian record-holder Ezekiel Nathaniel, who finished fourth at the 2025 World Championships in 47.11.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s 400m hurdles, Shamier Little faces Andrenette Knight and Savannah Sutherland.<\/p>\n
There is more depth in the sprint hurdles, where Jamaica\u2019s Diamond League champion Ackera Nugent lines up in the women\u2019s 100m hurdles against Olympic silver medallist Cyrena Samba-Mayela, 2019 world champion Nia Ali and world bronze medallist Grace Stark.<\/p>\n
Jamaica\u2019s Tyler Mason, the world bronze medallist, features in the men\u2019s 110m hurdles.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s 400m, Nigeria\u2019s Ella Onojuvwevwo looks to maintain her momentum following her African indoor record of 50.28 earlier in the year and her outdoor season debut of 49.59. She will face Jamaica\u2019s Stacey Ann Williams and US duo Britton Wilson and Bailey Lear.<\/p>\n
Caribbean clashes at 800m<\/p>\n
Both 800m races look set to be a duel between Jamaica and St Vincent and the Grenadines.<\/p>\n
Navasky Anderson, who set a Jamaican record of 1:42.76 in the world final last year, takes on Handal Roban in the men\u2019s race. Roban set a Vincentian record of 1:42.87 to win the NACAC title last year.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s 800m, Shafiqua Maloney of St Vincent and the Grenadines \u2014 fourth at the 2024 Olympic Games \u2014 lines up with a season\u2019s best of 1:59.54. The field also includes Jamaica\u2019s 2023 world finalist Adelle Tracey and USA\u2019s Meghan Hunter.<\/p>\n
North American record-holder KC Lightfoot heads an all-US men\u2019s pole vault field. He will face four-time global medallist Chris Nilsen, Pan-American champion Matt Ludwig and 2025 US champion Austin Miller.<\/p>\n
In the men\u2019s javelin, world bronze medallist Curtis Thompson takes on South Africa\u2019s Douw Smit, who recently improved his PB to 84.57m in Bydgoszcz.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s high jump includes Jamaica\u2019s Raymond Richards, the two-time world indoor bronze medallist, and compatriot Romain Beckford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exceptional women\u2019s hammer field featuring three of the four women in history to have thrown beyond 80…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-475129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}