BOLT and other Daegu champions for ZAGREB

ZAGREB (CRO) - Tuesday´s 61st Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb is the last IAAF World Challenge meet of the year. The main story is Usain Bolt in his first 100 m since Daegu. He will face among, other others, Kim Collins of St. Kitts and Nevis, the surprise bronze medallist in Daegu, who improved his season's best to 10.01 in Berlin on Sunday; Trinidad & Tobago's national record holder Richard Thompson; and former World and Olympic champion Justin Gatlin of the U.S. Bolt's immediate target is the 9.78 world lead set by his compatriot Asafa Powell in late June.

  In total five Daegu gold medalists will compete. Except Bolt also Carmelita Jeter in the 100 m, Sally Pearson in the 100 m hurdles, Jason Richardson at 110 m hurdles (against Dayron Robles). Special is the high jump duel Anna Chicherova against home hero Blanka Vlasic.

Men's Hammer Throw Challenge will have its last meet 2011, but Krisztian Pars looks like a clear winner. In the shorter dash, Sherone Simpson and Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie are the marginal favourites, while in the 400m Anastasiya Kapachinskaya, Russia's back-to-back World bronze medallist and more recently the winner in Berlin, will be the woman to beat. The men's 400m has the makings of a fast race, with LaShawn Merritt, the World championships runner-up, squaring off against Jamaican Jermaine Gonzales, who finished fourth in Deagu.

In the men's 1500m, Kenyan Nixon Chepseba, who captured the Samsung Diamond Trophy in the event, is likely to be the man to watch despite his third place showing in Berlin on Sunday. Meanwhile the men's 3000m steeplechase will likely provide yet another Kenyan tussle between teenager Hillary Yego, Haron Lagat, and Silas Kitum.

Americans Christian Cantwell, Reese Hoffa and Ryan Whiting are still looking to bounce back from the disappointing U.S. shut out from the medal stand in Daegu in the men shot put against Canadian Dylan Armstrong.

In the men's Discus, the man with the target on his back will be Virgilijus Alekna of Lithuania, who secured the Samsung Diamond Race trophy in Zurich.And finally, Yahya Berrabah of Morroco and Russia's Aleksander Menkov, fourth and sixth respectively in Daegu, lead the field in the men's Long Jump. With help from IAAF.