Meet record holder Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and national champion Rasheed Broadbell will be among a number of Jamaicans who are set to compete at the Spitzen Leichtathletik Luzern at Stadion Allmend in Luzern, Switzerland, today. The meet is a World Athletics Continental Tour – Silver event.

Fraser-Pryce, who set the meet record of 10.82 seconds in her season opener last season, is one of nine Jamaicans down to contest the women’s 100m.

Broadbell is set to race for the first time since the JAAA National Senior Championships at the end of June.

Lanae Tava Thomas in the women’s 200m, and Stacey-Ann Williams in the women’s 400m are among the Jamaicans who are fine-tuning their events for the Olympic Games as athletics begins on August 1.

It will be Fraser-Pryce’s first race outside of Jamaica this year as she prepares for what will be her final Olympic Games and will be joined by Shashalee Forbes, Kemba Nelson, Tina Clayton, Serena Cole, Natasha Morrison, Kishawna Niles, Briana Williams, and Jodean Williams.

Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji should get the crowd support as the hometown athlete while the USA’s Celera Barnes, who was second to Jamaica’s Christania Williams in Italy on Sunday, and Germany’s Gina Luckenkemper are also down to compete.

Cole, Morrison and Williams are ‘doubling up’ as they join Thomas in the 200m where Kambundji, Anavia Battle of the USA, Jessica Gbai of the Ivory Coast and Lynna Irby-Jackson of the USA will also line up.

Thomas’ personal best 22.34 seconds, set recently, is the fastest in the competition.

Stacey-Ann Williams will also go into the women’s 400m as the pre-race favourite with her 50.56 seconds season’s and personal best, well ahead of the Netherlands’ Lisanna de Witte’s 51.44 seconds.

National women’s long jump champion Ackelia Smith faces a quality field that will also include American Monae Nichols, Natalia Linares of Colombia and Switzerland’s Annik Kalin.

Broadbell, who withdrew from a race last week after winning the national title by the closest margin in the entire JAAA championships, is expected to battle American Trey Cunningham, France’s Aurel Manga and Poland’s Jakub Szymanski. The meet record of 13.02 seconds, set in 1995 by American Mark Crear, could be threatened.

Michael Campbell, who raced t the weekend, will attempt the men’s sprint double and will be joined by former national champion Rohan Watson in the 100m.

They will face a tough line-up that will be led by the red-hot Benjamin Richardson of South Africa, who ran a personal best 9.86 seconds on Sunday, joint fifth best in the world; Kendal Williams of the USA who has a season best 9.93 seconds; Favor Ashe of Nigeria, who ran 9.94 seconds; and Ronnie Baker of the USA, who has a season’s best of 9.95 seconds.

Teenager Gary Card is also in the 200m where Trinidad and Tobago’s Jereem Richards, South Africa’s Richardson, Uganda’s Tarsis Orogot, who has a season’s best 19.75 seconds, and Zimbabwe’s Tapiwanashe Makarawu, who has run 19.93 seconds.

Rusheen McDonald will line up in the men’s 400m where he will face Nigeria’s Samuel Ogazi, Nene Zakathi of South Africa, Emmanuel Bamidele of Nigeria, and Dylan Borlee of Belgium.