A strong 60m hurdles field that features the champion and four other finalists from the women’s 100m hurdles at the World Championships in Budapest has been announced for the Millrose Games, a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, in New York on 11 February.

World gold medallist Danielle Williams of Jamaica goes up against world bronze medallist Kendra Harrison of USA, plus Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas, Williams’ Jamaican compatriot Ackera Nugent and USA’s Nia Ali.

Racing in Budapest in August, Williams regained the world title she first won in 2015, clocking 12.43 to finish ahead of Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and Harrison.

Williams and Harrison, who is the former world 100m hurdles record-holder and the 2018 world 60m hurdles champion, renew their rivalry in New York where they will be joined by Charlton, who won world 60m hurdles silver in 2022, plus NCAA champion Nugent and 2019 world champion Ali. 

Adding further quality to the field are the US duo of Alaysha Johnson and Tia Jones.

In the men’s 60m, Canada’s Olympic 200m champion Andre De Grasse will go up against USA’s Christian Coleman, the 2019 world 100m champion who also won the world 60m title in 2018, plus his US compatriot Ronnie Baker.

They will line up alongside Japanese record-holder Abdul Hakim Sani Brown, Jamaica’s NACAC champion Ackeem Blake and Puerto Rican record-holder Miles Lewis.

The announcement of the Millrose Games hurdles field follows confirmation of home star Pia Skrzyszowska, Tobi Amusan, Reetta Hurske and Luca Kozak for the 60m hurdles at the ORLEN Copernicus Cup, also a World Athletics Indoor Tour Gold meeting, in Torun in Poland on 6 February.

Skrzyszowska won the European 100m hurdles title in 2022, while Nigeria’s Amusan is the world record-holder who got gold at the 2022 World Championships.

Finland’s Hurske claimed 60m hurdles gold at last year’s European Indoor Championships, while Hungary’s Kozak secured European silver behind Skrzyszowska in Munich in 2022.

Other athletes named for the Copernicus Cup so far include Piotr Lisek, Sondre Guttormsen and Emmanouil Karalis in the men’s pole vault.

Previous Millrose Games announcements include Josh Kerr in the two miles, Yaroslava Mahuchikh in the high jump and Yared Nuguse in the Wanamaker Mile.