FOUR high-profile names have been added to the list of competitors for the Jamaica Athletics Invitational meet next month.

It was announced on Friday that 400m world champion Antonio Watson, three-time World Athletics Championships medallist Marie-Josée Ta Lou-Smith of the Ivory Coast, American World Indoor 60m champion Christian Coleman, and Jamaica’s bronze medallist Ackeem Blake have been confirmed for the National Stadium on Saturday, May 11.

The quartet will join a constellation of stars who were named last week for the meet that has been designated a World Athletics Continental Tour silver meet and which promises much excitement.

The meet’s Athlete Liaison Officer Marvin Anderson says the organisers are building a steady list that he believes will fulfil the demand for a great sporting event.

The four athletes will join Olympic champion Hansle Parchment, Commonwealth champion Rasheed Broadbell, and American Daniel Roberts. These three men compete in the 110m hurdles.

St Lucia’s Julien Alfred, the World Indoor women’s 60m champion, is set to face off against Great Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith and two-time world champion Abby Steiner, while Zharnel Hughes, Marvin Bracy, Trayvon Brommel, Abdul Hakim Sani-Brown and Fred Kerley are also confirmed.

Watson, who became the second Jamaican man to win the 400m, doing so at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary last year, is yet to run the 400m this season, while Ta Lou-Smith, who has competed here before, was a double silver medallist in the 100m and 200m at the World Athletics Championships in London in 2017.