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Stockholm - Co-world record holder Asafa Powell will come up against a formidable twin challenge in a 100m race that promises fireworks at the Stockholm Super Grand Prix on Tuesday.
The Jamaican will line-up alongside new 200m sensation Xavier Carter and his fellow American Tyson Gay, who posted a scorching 9.88sec in Crete last Friday.
Carter and Gay's presence will have Powell, who holds the record of 9.77 with world and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin, under pressure from the gun.
Carter also brings his all-distance ability to the race, fresh from setting the second best 200m time ever just two weeks ago in Lausanne with a stunning 19.63 run.
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Carter is also a world-class 400m man, having finished second to another American Jeremy Wariner in Rome, with Wariner posting 43.62 to record the best time in the world since legend Michael Johnson's world record of 43.18 in 1999.
But now the young prodigy is hoping to test his legs over the shortest sprint of them all, against the toughest competition on the track.
Wariner is also due to race at an all-star meeting that boasts Olympic triple jump champion Christian Olsson of Sweden, world record pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva of Russia and Swedish heptathlon queen Carolina Kluft who will compete in the long jump.
A battle is expected in the women's 200m as well where Jamaican Sherone Simpson, who has set the fastest times this year over 100m and 200m, takes on world 100m champion Lauryn Williams of USA and her Jamaican-born compatriot Sanya Richards who claimed silver in last year's world championships at 400m.
Other notable names to look out for are Czech javelin legend Jan Zelezny and Russian 800m star Yuriy Borzakovskiy. - Sapa-AFP
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