MONTEGO BAY, St James — Top Jamaican female sprinters Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Veronica Campbell Brown will clash for the first time this season when they meet in the women’s 100m at today’s Prefontaine Classic in Eugene, Oregon, the fourth stop in the IAAF Diamond League series.

Both women have been impressive in their races so far this season, and with less than a month to go before the JAAA/Supreme Ventures National Senior Trials to select the Jamaica team to the Moscow World Championships, today’s race will be important for both athletes to gauge their readiness.

Fourteen Jamaican athletes have been listed to take part in the meet that has been named in honour of the late American middle/long-distance legend who passed way tragically in a car crash in 1975.

Men’s 200m World Leader Nickel Ashmeade as well as sprint hurdlers Hansel Parchment and Andrew Riley will also lineup for Diamond League points, while three Jamaican women will also take part in a thrilling 400m race.

The meet started yesterday with a number of events, including the women’s shot put, men’s long jump and women’s javelin throw.

Today, the women’s 100m will be one of the premier events on the schedule with a third Jamaican Kerron Stewart also in the mix.

Fraser-Pryce, who withdrew from a meet in England, should be well rested and looking to improve on her World Leading 10.93 seconds. She will, however, come up against Campbell Brown who ran 11.01 seconds to win at the Jamaican International Invitational last month and won the 200m at last weekend’s Adidas Classic in New York, running 22.53 seconds in wet and cold conditions.

Blessing Okagbare of Nigeria, who has run 11.00 seconds this year, will also take part in the race as well as American Allyson Felix and Ivory Coast’s Murielle Ahoure.

Three Jamaicans are also down to run in the women’s 400m. They are former World Leader Stephanie McPherson who has a season and personal best 50.43 seconds, former Olympic and World Championships silver medallist Shericka Williams and Olympic finalist Novlene Williams-Mills.

After her late withdrawal from the New York meet last week, Jamaican-born American Olympic champion Sanya Richards-Ross is expected to make her debut and will clash with Botswana’s World Leader Amantle Montsho who ran 49.88 seconds last week.

Parchment, the London Olympic Games bronze medallist, and Riley will be in a 110m hurdles race that will see the top two men in the world so far, American David Oliver and Cuba’s Orlando Ortega as well as Olympic silver medallist Jason Richardson and Jeff Porter.

Jamaica’s Nickel Ashmeade will run the 200m for the first time since his 20.00 seconds at the Jamaica Invitational a month ago and will face the exciting up-and-coming Jason Young as well as American Walter Dix, who is making his season debut in the event.

Nesta Carter, one of four men to go under 10.00 seconds so far this year and Olympic relay teammate Kemar Bailey-Cole, will contest the men’s 100m that will see Americans Justin Gatling, Mike Rodgers and Ryan Bailey.

After her fourth place in her opening race in Shanghai, China, inter-mediate hurdler and two-time Diamond League champion Kaliese Spencer will seek to improve on her 54.91 seconds and start her accumulation of points in the defence of her title.

Olympic finalist Kimberly Williams will contest the triple jump event and will go into the meet with a season-best 14.00m set in Kingston in early May.