Eilidh Child (Pitreavie) faces a top line-up at the British Athletics Grand Prix in Birmingham on Saturday.
Child fresh from a Scottish 400m record of 52.06 seconds in Sheffield last Saturday on her way to the UK title lines up against Olympic 400m hurdles semi-finalist Perri Shakes-Drayton and USA 4x400m specialist Natasha Hastings, who narrowly defeated Shakes-Drayton at the British Athletics Glasgow International Match.
Double Olympic champion Mo Farah takes to the track for the first time this year as he competes in the 3,000m, and the 29-year-old is looking forward to competing in front of a Birmingham crowd again.
“I always love running in Birmingham and have fond memories of celebrating my Olympic success with the British fans at Alexander Stadium last August,” said Farah.
“I always run well at the National Indoor Arena. I won this meet in 2007, 2009 and 2011, and that’s what I’ll be aiming to this time around.”
The top two from the women’s 100m at last summer’s Olympics will go head to head, as Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce faces Carmelita Jeter for the first time since August in the 60m.
Jamaican Fraser-Pryce will compete in her first indoor race, while Jeter will return to the UK after a second-place finish at the Glasgow International Match last month.
Britain’s Olympic high-jump bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz will take on Russia’s Olympic Champion Ivan Ukhov.
Grabarz, who secured his place in the GB team for the European Championships in Gothenburg with victory in Sheffield last weekend, will look for a repeat of the performance that saw him win this event last year.
Holly Bleasdale, who set a world-leading 4.77m as she won the pole vault at the European trials and UK Championships last weekend, will face the challenge of Cuba’s Olympic silver medallist Yarisley Silva a 4.76m vaulter in 2013.
Jenny Meadows returns to the track for the first time since September 2011 as she runs over 800m against Olympic bronze medallist Ekaterina Poistogova of Russia and European silver medallist Lynsey Sharp (Edinburgh AC).