JAMAICA’S Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, the back-to-back IAAF World Championships 100m winner, will be targeting a new national record when she lines up in a mouth-watering women’s 100m at today’s Weltklasse Zurich Diamond League meeting in Switzerland, the penultimate meeting of the 14-race series.

Seven of the eight women who lined up in the 100m final in the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, with the exception of silver medallist Dafne Schippers, will be on show today.

A number of gold medallists from Beijing are expected to compete, less than a week after the end of the spectacular nine-day event.

At yesterday’s press-conference Fraser-Pryce, who set her present national record 10.70 seconds three years ago at the JAAA Senior Trials at the National Stadium said, “I am looking forward to running a personal best, and hopefully I can do it here.”

Nine Jamaicans including World Championships 200m bronze medallist Veronica Campbell Brown are down to take part in the meet that will also see a number of Diamond Trophy winners decided.

Fraser-Pryce, who is also the world leader with 10.74 seconds, can also retain her DL 100m title today as she leads with 12 points, four more than Nigeria’s Blessing Okagbare-Ighoteguonor who will also be in the race and will be hoping to make up for a disappointing World Championships.

Fraser-Pryce is the fourth fastest woman of all times and will be seeking to join three Americans — world record holder the late Florence Griffiths-Joyner, Carmelita Jeter and Marion Jones to go under 10.70 seconds.

Griffith-Joyner holds the world record at 10.49 seconds set in 1988 and has the top three fastest times including 10.61 seconds and 10.62 seconds, all set in 1988; Jeter has gone under 10.70 seconds twice and Jones once.

Jamaicans Campbell Brown, who was fourth in the 100m in Beijing in 10.91 seconds, and Natasha Morrison, who ran her personal best 10.96 seconds in the semi-finals in Beijing, as well as the Trinidadian pair of Michelle-Lee Ahye, and Kelly-Ann Baptiste as well as American Tori Bowie, will also be seeking honours.

After missing out on a place in the individual 200m in Beijing, Rasheed Dwyer, the NACAC champion and Beijing finalist Nickel Ashmeade will fly Jamaica’s colours in the men’s 200m.

South African Anaso Jobodwana, bronze medallists in Beijing, and Panama’s Alonso Edward who are separated by a point in the Diamond Race will seek to decide the Diamond trophy honours.

Dwyer who ran 19.80 seconds earlier at the Pan-American Games in Toronto, Canada has the fastest time this year in the field, however.

After finishing last in the 400m hurdles final in Beijing, Kaliese Spencer will have a difficult time in extending her fantastic run in the Diamond League.

She comes into today’s race trailing world champion Zuzana Hejnova of Czech Republic by two points, 12 to 14.

Janieve Russell, who ran a personal best 54.64 seconds to place fifth in Beijing, will also line up in the intermediate hurdles event today along with American bronze medallist Cassandra Tate and Denmark’s Sara Petersen.

Annsert Whyte will hope to make his mark in the men’s 400m hurdles, while Jason Morgan will be hoping to end the year with a bang in the men’s discus.

Since throwing the national record 68.19m in early June, Morgan has struggled with fitness and injuries and has not gone over 62.26m since then and failed to get past the first round of the World Championships.

Jamaican athletes are also listed to take part in the women’s 4x100m with what looks to be a team made up of runners from the MVP club.