Campbell

National sprint champion Veronica Campbell heads the seven Jamaicans who will compete in today's Athens Grand Prix.

The others down for the meet are Kenia Sinclair (800m), Trecia Smith (triple jump), Melaine Walker (400m hurdles), Dwight Thomas (100m), Maurice Wignall (110m hurdles) and James Beckford (long jump).

Campbell, who clocked a world leading 10.89 seconds to capture the 100m at the June 22-24 Puma/Supreme Ventures National Senior and Junior Championships and 22.39 to win the 200m, is down to run both events in the same stadium where she won Olympic gold in 2004.

In the 100m Campbell will face Americans Rachelle Smith, Mikele Barber, Me'Lisa Barber and Carmelita Jeter, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of The Bahamas and Belgium's Kim Gevaert.

The 200m field includes Ferguson-McKenzie, Russia's Yuliya Gushchina and Muriel Hurtis-Houairi of France.

Sinclair, who has the second-fastest time in the world this year over 800m, will compete against Hasna Benhassi of Morocco, Slovenia's Jolanda Ceplak and Kenya's Commonwealth Games champion Janeth Jepkosgei and Svetlana Cherkasova of Russia.

Jamaica's national champion clocked 1:58.61 for second in the 800m at the Prefontaine meet in Oregon on June 10. The race was won in a world-leading 1:58.33 by Mozambique's Maria Mutola.

The women's 400m hurdles field contains two of the big guns in the event, American champion Tiffany Ross-Williams and runner-up Sheena Johnson. Ross-Williams won the American title in a world-leading 53.28, just ahead of Johnson's 53.29. Also in the field is Australia's Commonwealth Games champion Jana Pittman.

Walker who recently won the Jamaican title has a 2007 best of 54.14.

Beckford, Italy's Andrew Howe, Wilfredo Martinez of Cuba and American Miquel Pate are the leading competitors down for the long jump.