Summary 19 world championships gold medalists will compete at the Diamond League meeting next week.
ZURICH (AP) - Organizers of Weltklasse say 19 world championships gold medalists will compete at the Diamond League meeting next week.
Usain Bolt leads a 100 meters lineup on Aug. 29 featuring the top six finishers in the worlds final at Moscow last week.
High jump world champion Bohdan Bondarenko heads a Weltklasse entry that includes the top eight in Moscow. The Ukrainian almost broke the 20-year-old world record mark of 2.45 meters at the Lausanne Diamond League meet in July.
Weltklasse organizers say Ethiopian rivals Meseret Defar and Tirunesh Dibaba the women s world champions over 5,000 and 10,000, respectively will race over 5,000.
Weltklasse stages the first half of the season-ending Diamond League finals. Brussels hosts the remaining events Sept. 6 at the Van Damme Memorial meet.
