Olympic Games men’s discus throw record holder Roje Stona will make his Diamond League debut today when he competes at the Pietro Mennea Golden Gala in Rome, Italy.

Stona threw 70.00m to win Jamaica’s first gold medal in a throwing event at an Olympic Games earlier this month and will be making his first competitive appearance since.

He is one of 10 Jamaicans who are expected to line up today, including Olympic Games bronze medallist Rajindra Campbell in the men’s shot put.

Stona will face his biggest challengers from the Olympics with the top four men from Paris lining up today, including Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania, who took the silver medal and Matthew Denny of Australia, who was the bronze medallist, as well as Kristjan Ceh of Slovakia and Austria’s Lukas Weisshaidinger.

Campbell made his Diamond League debut last week in Poland and faces a quality field led by Olympic champion Ryan Crouser and Joe Kovacs of the USA, Italy’s Leonardo Fabbri and Chuckwuebuka Enekwechi of Nigeria.

Ackera Nugent is coming off a good win in Poland and will go up against Olympic gold medallist Masai Russell of the USA and France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela, who she beat on Sunday; Alaysha Johnson of the USA, World Indoor champion Devynne Charlton of The Bahamas, Kendra Harrison of the USA, Nadine Visser of the Netherlands, and Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji in a stacked contest.

Former Olympic and world champion Omar McLeod and Orlando Bennett will contest the 110m hurdles, a non-Diamond League event, against Americans Cordell Tinch and Dylan Beard; Lorenzo Simonelli of Italy and France’s Sasha Zhoya.

Olympic Games finalist Romaine Beckford set a new personal best 2.29m last week when he was second in Poland and will go up against Italy’s Gianmarco Tamberi, Sanghyeok Woo of Korea and Oleh Doroshchuk of Ukraine.

Shiann Salmon leads a Jamaican trio including Janieve Russell and Andrenette Knight in the women’s 400m hurdles where American Anna Cockrell will start as favourite.

Ackeem Blake is the only Jamaican in the men’s 100m where he will line up against Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana, American Olympic Games bronze medallist Fred Kerley, Kenaya’s Ferdinand Omanyala and Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs.