Ghana's 100m record holder, Abdul-Rasheed Saminu will line up against the world's fastest man of 2025, Kishane Thompson, and South African sprint icon Akani Simbine at the István Gyulai Memorial meet on Tuesday 12 August in Budapest, Hungary.

It will be Saminu's first competition on the European circuit, having ended his collegiate season with the NCAA championships back in June.

The 27-year old has had a breakout season in 2025, where he has broken the national record twice, first with a 9.86s clocking at the end of May, before lowering his own record to 9.84s seven weeks later.

The former University of Ghana student, whose 9.84s time is the 7th fastest in the world this year, is now expected to test his mettle against some of the world's fastest, not least, Thompson, who ran a huge personal best of 9.75s in June to claim the Jamaican National Championships.

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Also expected in the stacked field is Africa's fastest man in history, Ferdinand Omanyala, veteran American sprinter Ronnie Baker, Nigerian, Kanyinsola Ajayi and the Jamaican duo of Ackeem Blake and Rohan Watson, all of whom have run under the ten-second mark this season.

The men's 100m race, the final event of the packed evening, is expected to start at 17:27GMT.

Men's 100m entries - Gyulai Istvan Memorial

Kishane Thompson
Akani Simbine
Ackeem Blake
Kanyinsola Ajayi
Ronnie Baker
Ferdinand Omanyala
Abdul-Rasheed Saminu
Rohan Watson
Dominik Illovszky

- August 12th

— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) August 8, 2025