The May 30 Reebok Grand Prix will be a real Jamaica versus USA clash.

Four hot clashes are down for the fourth stop of USA Track and Field's Visa Championship Series, set for Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island in New York. Both nations will face off in the women's 100 metres, 400 metres and 200 metres, and men's 110 metres hurdles.


world-class runners

The women's 100-metre dash features a world-class field, including defending champion, Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown and American Olympic silver medallist Lauryn Williams. Campbell-Brown and Williams have gone head-to-head multiple times in recent years and have a history of performing well in major competitions.

The two-time Olympic gold medallist at 200 metres, Campbell-Brown defeated Williams in a photo finish at the 2007 World Championships in Osaka in the 100m.

Two years earlier, at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Williams won the gold at 100 metres with Campbell-Brown finishing a close second.

Overall, both athletes have met 18 times with Campbell-Brown winning all but on three occasions.

The day's other mouth-watering clash will be in the women's one-lap event. Here Jamaica's best will face the United States' top guns.

Allyson Felix, the leader this season with 50.75, and Sanya Richards will take on Jamaica's pair of Novlene Williams-Mills, the second best with 50.99, and Shericka Williams. Felix, America's reigning World Champion and two-time Olympic silver medallist at 200 metres, also had an impressive outing at the Penn Relays, when she destroyed her competitors to lead USA to victory.

Richards has been the dominant American in the 400m for three of the past four years and holds the 48.70 American record.

Shericka Williams won the 400m silver medal at last year's Olympics in Beijing, just ahead of Richards, while Williams-Mills beat the Jamaican-born Richards earlier this month.


centre stage

In the women's 200m, Olympic 100m champion Shelly-Ann Fraser will take centre stage. Fraser won gold in Beijing with a personal best time of 10.78 seconds. Among her challengers will be up-and-coming Americans Shalonda Solomon and Bianca Knight. Solomon set an indoor American record at 300 metres in February and Knight won the NCAA Indoor Champion-ships at 200 metres in 2008.

Maurice Wignall, a finalist in Beijing, will carry Jamaica's flag in the men's 110m, but faces a stiff competition against the American pair of two-time Olympic silver medallist Terrence Trammell and last year's Beijing silver medal winner David Payne. The 2005 World Championship gold medallist, Ladji Doucoure of France, will also be in the field.