Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is set to match strides with Shaunae Miller-Uibo over the women’s 200m at the Wanda Diamond League Herculis meet in Monaco on Friday (July 9).

The 2021 Jamaican champion, who ran a lifetime best of 21.79 at her country’s national trials on June 27, will be looking to rebound from her 100m loss to compatriot Elaine Thompson in Hungary on Tuesday.

She will be tested by the Bahamian champion, who might be still smarting from her first loss in almost four years when she finished second to Shericka Jackson in Hungary. Miller-Uibo, who ran 22.15 in Hungary has a season-best time of 22.03.

They will both have to contend with the in-form pair of African sprinters – Marie Josee Ta Lou and Blessing Okagbare, who are also hoping to be razor sharp in time for the Olympic Games that gets underway in two weeks.

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Besides that potentially electrifying race, there are several other mouth-watering match-ups on tap in Monaco, among them the Women 800m in which Jamaica’s Natoya Goule will be hoping to turn the tables on Cuba’s Rose Mary Almanza, who narrowly defeated her in Stockholm on Sunday.

Also down to compete in the USA’s Kate Grace, who was third in Stockholm.

Disappointingly, the expected clash between newly minted 400m hurdlers world record holder Karsten Warholm and the USA’s Rai Benjamin, the two fastest men in the world this year, doesn’t seem likely to happen as the American record holder is not on the list of starters.

However, the Norwegian will have more than enough challengers to push him to another fast time.

Brazil’s national record holder Alisson Dos Santos, who has run 47.34 this season and the BVI’s Kyron McMaster, who has run a season-best of 47.50, should provide adequate stimulation for the Warholm.

The Brazilian was second to Warholm when the latter broke the world record in Oslo on July 1.

In the field, the Jamaican pair of Shanieka Ricketts and Kimberly Williams, will take on the imperious Venezuelan Yulimar Rojas in the triple jump.

In reality, the two Jamaicans could most likely be battling among themselves for minor placings as Rojas, who has jumped 15.43m this season, just seven cm shy of Ukraine’s Inessa Kravets 25-year-old world record of 15.50, is in a class of her own.

Ricketts will be hoping she can join 2015 world champion Trecia-Kay Smith as Jamaican women who have jumped 15m while Williams will be targeting a new personal best as she heads into Tokyo to contend for a medal.