Sainsbury's Birmingham GP, June 7, with 14 Olympic and 27 World Champions!

Mo Farah, Pre Classic, photo by PhotoRun.net

BIRMINGHAM (GBR):

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Some of the world’s best athletes will line up at the Sainsbury’s Birmingham Grand Prix on Sunday 7 June with 14 Olympic champions and 27 world champions confirmed as competing at the IAAF Diamond League event. All three of Great Britain & Northern Ireland’s London 2012 Olympic gold medallists from ‘Super Saturday‘ will be at the Alexander Stadium. Jessica Ennis-Hill will compete in the 100m hurdles and shot put fresh from completing her first heptathlon since London 2012 in Gotzis last weekend, Mo Farah will step down to the 1500m and Greg Rutherford will contest the long jump. The women’s 100m hurdles will be fiercely competitive with Ennis-Hill being joined by Olympic champion Sally Pearson of Australia, world champion Brianna Rollins of the USA, GB & NI’s reigning European champion Tiffany Porter and breakthrough star Jasmin Stowers, who shot to seventh all time in the world with a time of 12.35 at the Doha leg of the IAAF Diamond League. There will be strong British representation in the men’s 100m with European 200m champion Adam Gemili and world and European indoor 60 m champion Richard Kilty facing the likes of Mike Rodgers and Kim Collins. 99 men in history have run sub-10 seconds for 100m so one of the British duo could become number 100 in Birmingham. American Christian Taylor will compete in the triple jump after elevating himself to fourth in the world all time lists with a jump of 18.04m in Doha. The 2011 world champion and 2012 Olympic champion holds the current Alexander Stadium record of 17.66m.

Author

Larry Eder

Larry Eder has had a 52-year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher, and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub-4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Athletics to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts, and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself." Also does some updates for BBC Sports at key events, which he truly enjoys.

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