Ten Jamaicans, including Olympic Games women’s triple jump silver medallist Shanieka Ricketts, will be seeking the Diamond League trophy and the US$30,000 first prize as the series spanning six months and 15 meets comes to a close with the two-day final at Allianz Memorial Van Damme at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels.

Twenty-three Jamaicans, including four who will compete in invitational events, will compete over the next two days where they could also earn byes to next year’s World Athletics Championships set for Tokyo, Japan.

The two-day final, which will see 32 disciplines being decided, has been affected by withdrawals of high-profile athletes for a number of reasons, including injuries, and in at least one case, the organisers not being able to meet the financial demands of the athlete.

As a result, a number of the fields are less than capacity, with some of the field events featuring just six athletes.

Ricketts has a good chance of earning a bye to Tokyo next year when she lines up in the women’s triple jump along with compatriot Ackelia Smith, where Cuba’s Leyanis Perez Hernandez and American Jasmine Moore could be her main competition.

Wayne Pinnock will be confident he can pull off back-to-back wins over Olympic and World Champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece in the men’s long jump final.

After losing to Tentoglou in successive meets, in the final round on each occasion, Pinnock beat the Greek for the first time in their last meeting and will be going after a much bigger prize today.

Two other Jamaicans, Carey McLeod and Tajay Gayle, will also compete as well as Italy’s World Under 20 record holder Mattia Furlani.

Danniel Thomas-Dodd will contest the women’s shot put, where she will face a quality field that will be led by American Chase Jackson, world leader Sarah Mitton of Canada, and Olympic champion Yemisi Ogunleye of Germany.

Many-times national champion and national record holder Natoya Goule-Toppin will have to be at her best if she is to challenge in the women’s 800m that will see the Great Britain pair of Jemma Reekie and Georgia Bell as well as Kenya’s Mary Moraa.

World Indoor bronze medallist Ackeem Blake and 2023 national champion Rohan Watson will contest the men’s 100m that will see Americans Fred Kerley and Christian Coleman as well as South Africa’s Akani Simbini as the prerace favourites.

Fedrick Dacres will compete for the first time since June when he lines up in the men’s discus throw where world record holder and Olympic Games silver medallist Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania, Olympic finalists Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia, and Matthew Denny of Australia are also chasing the top prize.

There will be men’s and women’s invitational 400m races; Rusheen McDonald will face a men’s field that is mainly runners from Belgium led by Dylan Borlee.

Stacey-Ann Williams, who set a personal best 50.00 seconds earlier this week, and Stephenie Ann McPherson, who could be running her final race at this level, will face American superstar Sydney McLaughlin Levrone in the women’s race.

On Saturday, world leader Ackera Nugent will lead another 10 athletes on the final day of the event as she battles another quality field in the 100m hurdles.

Danielle Williams in the 100m hurdles, Rajindra Campbell in the men’s shot put; Roshawn Clarke and Malik James-King in the men’s 400m hurdles; Shiann Salmon, Janieve Russell, and Andrenette Knight in the women’s 400m hurdles; Romaine Beckford in the men’s high jump and Michael Campbell in the men’s invitational 100m will also be in action.