A number of Jamaican athletes will be seeking to atone for their performances at the recent Olympic Games in Paris when they compete at Thursday’s Athletissima, the 11th Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season at Stade Olympique de la Pontaise in Lausanne, Switzerland.

A sold-out crowd of 13,000 is expected on the second day of the meet after the men’s pole vault was won on Wednesday by world record holder Sweden’s Mondo Duplantis, the World Championships and Olympic champion.

Jamaica’s Olympic Games men’s long jump silver medallist Wayne Pinnock is set to feature, as well as compatriots, Olympic Games finalists Tia Clayton and Ackera Nugent, who are both about to make their Diamond League debuts in the women’s 100m and 100m hurdles, respectively.

After battling injuries midway this season, Pinnock rose to the occasion to take the silver medal in Paris and will be joined by compatriots Carey McLeod and Tajay Gayle in what looks to be one of several quality line-ups on the day.

Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, bronze medallist Mattia Furlani of Italy — the gold medal favourite for next week’s World Under-20 Championships in Lima, Peru — and Switzerland’s Olympic finalist Simon Ehammer will ensure close competition.

Nugent failed to complete the 100m hurdles finals in Paris. She will face a line-up that has no fewer than four athletes who contested the medal race in Paris.

Two-time 100m hurdles World Champion Danielle Williams, who failed to get past the semi-finals in Paris, will also line up against Puerto Rico’s bronze medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, as well as France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela, Nadine Visser of the Netherlands, and Grace Stark of the United States. Samba-Mayela, Visser and Stark were among the finalists in Paris.

Rushell Clayton, who was expected to battle for a medal in Paris but finished fifth after two impressive runs, is to join Janieve Russell and Andrenette Knight in the women’s 400m hurdles.

They are to go up against Olympic Games bronze medallist Femke Bol of the Netherlands, who is the meet record holder, and American Shamier Little.

Tia Clayton, one of the break-out Jamaican athletes of the season after running at least 10.90 seconds in the 100m three times so far and who was a finalist in Paris, will fancy her chances of a first Diamond League win. Clayton, who was second at the Jamaican championships in June, is down to face the Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josee Ta Lou-Smith, Switzerland’s Mujinga Kambundji and the British pair of Daryll Neit and Dina Asher-Smith. Neita qualified for both sprint finals at the Olympic Games and is in the best form of her career.

After missing the last two major global finals, Jamaica’s best-ever women’s 800m runner Natoya Goule-Toppin will hope to make an impact.

She will, however, face a strong field that should be led by Great Britain’s Jemma Reekie, world champion Mary Moraa of Kenya, Georgia Bell of Great Britain as well as Olympic finalist Shafiqua Maloney of St Vincent and the Grenadines, who will also be making her Diamond League debut.

Danniel Thomas-Dodd was disappointed after not making it into the final in Paris but will be looking for an improved showing in the women’s shot put.

She will be one of several shot putters who will be seeking redemption. Two-time World Champion Chase Jackson of the United States, who failed to get past the first round in Paris, as well as Canada’s Sarah Mitton, who finished 12th, are two others.

They are to go up against Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye of Germany and silver medallist Maddison-Lee Wesche of New Zealand.

High jumper Lamara Distin, still ranked third in the world despite failing to make it past the first round at the Olympic Games, will relish the opportunity to match her skills against the very best in the event.

She is to face the top three from Paris — world record holder Yaroslava Mahuchikh of the Ukraine, Australia’s Nicola Olyslagers, who won the silver medal in Paris, and bronze medallist Iryna Gerashchenko, also of the Ukraine.