Sha’Carri Richardson is getting a second shot at glory — the U.S. track star will face off against the Jamaican Olympics winners

(LOS ANGELES, CA) Track News: Jamaican sprint stars Elaine Thompson-Herah, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, and Shericka Jackson – who filled the 100m podium at the Tokyo Olympic Games – will face USA’s Sha’Carri Richardson at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meet on Saturday, August 21 in Eugene, Oregon.

In Tokyo, Thompson-Herah became the first woman to ever complete a golden 100m and 200m ‘double double’ at the Olympic Games.

Just three days after her successful 100m title defence, which was achieved with an Olympic record-breaking run of 10.61, the 29-year-old stormed to a second successive 200m title in 21.53 (0.8m/s) and is now the second-fastest woman in history over both distances.

Her 200m time improves the Jamaican record of 21.64 which had been set by Merlene Ottey in 1991 and only the USA’s world record-holder Florence Griffith-Joyner has ever gone quicker with her world and Olympic record of 21.34 set at the 1988 Games in Seoul.

Thompson-Herah added a third gold medal in Tokyo as a member of Jamaica’s 4x100m sprint relay team that established a new national record of 41.02 seconds.

Richardson is a 21-year-old sprinter who won the NCAA championship in the 100m as a freshman by setting a new college record.  She burst onto the international scene with scorching times and in April ran a personal best 10.72, which made her the sixth-fastest woman in world history.

At the Olympic trials in June, she ran a wind-aided 10.64 in the semifinals, which was the eight-fastest time ever run and, without the breeze, would have made her the second-fastest woman ever after Griffith-Joyner. In the finals, she booked her ticket to Tokyo by winning in 10.86 seconds and was highly fancied to win the gold medal in Tokyo. However, She tested positive for marijuana, and under the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) rules, that’s not allowed. She was banned for a month and missed the Olympics.

Also listed to compete in the 100m is Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast, who finished fourth in Tokyo.

Dozens of other medal winners from the Tokyo Olympic Games will be in action in Eugene. Based on the announcements made so far by the meeting organisers, five events will feature a full set of Olympic medallists from Tokyo.

Double Olympic champion Sifan Hassan headlines the women’s 5000m field and she’ll take on two-time world champion Hellen Obiri and world indoor 1500m record-holder Gudaf Tsegay, the silver and bronze medallists in Tokyo over 5000m.

All three medallists from the men’s 5000m will also be in action as Uganda’s Joshua Cheptegei, Canada’s Moh Ahmed, and USA’s Paul Chelimo clash over two miles.

Teenage stars Athing Mu and Keely Hodgkinson, the top two finishers in the 800m in Tokyo, will be back in action over two laps, along with the world and Olympic bronze medallist Raevyn Rogers, world champion Halimah Nakaayi, Britain’s Jemma Reekie, Jamaica’s Natoya Goule and USA’s Ajee Wilson and Kate Grace.

World record-holder and two-time Olympic champion Ryan Crouser will look to maintain his winning streak in the shot put when he takes on world champion Joe Kovacs and 2017 world champion Tom Walsh. Brazil’s Darlan Romani and US duo Darrell Hill and Payton Otterdahl are also in the line-up.

The men’s 100m, meanwhile, features Olympic silver and bronze medallists Andre De Grasse and Fred Kerley, along with world indoor bronze medallist Ronnie Baker, 400m specialist Michael Norman, and African record-holder Akani Simbine.

Two-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon will once again line up against Olympic silver medallist Laura Muir and Canadian record-holder Gabriela DeBues-Stafford, while world champion Timothy Cheruiyot will clash with Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen in the men’s Bowerman mile.

In the women’s steeplechase, world champion Beatrice Chepkoech takes on world leader Norah Jeruto Tanui, Olympic silver medallist Courtney Frerichs and 2017 world champion Emma Coburn.

Other global stars confirmed so far include world 400m hurdles champion Dalilah Muhammad, Olympic triple jump champion Pedro Pablo Pichardo and world indoor triple jump record-holder Hugues Fabrice Zango.