Having had some time to recover from his experiences at the World Athletics Championships in Osaka, Athenry AC’s Paul Hession gets back into the thick of world-class action at tonight’s Golden League meeting in Brussels.

Tonight’s meeting, the Memorial Van Damme, will be televised on Setanta Sports 2 at 07:00pm Irish time. Paul will face two of the medallists in this event from Osaka in the personages of Usain Bolt (Silver) and Wallace Spearmon (Bronze). A solid performance in this race would also significantly enhance Paul’s prospects of being qualified to compete in the season ending World Athletics Final which takes place in Stuttgart on September 22-23.

As always, Good Luck Paul.

The line up for Paul’s race is;

http://www.iaaf.org/gp07/results/eventCode=3782/gender=M/discipline=200/index.html

Entry List Men 200 Metres Athlete Nationality

Beyens Kristof BEL

Bolt Usain JAM

Carter Xavier USA

Hession Paul IRL

Hoogmoed Guus NED

Johnson Joshua J. USA

Martin Rodney USA

Spearmon Wallace USA

Wissman Johan SWE

Current standings in qualification to the World Athletics Final are;

http://www.iaaf.org/GP07/results/standings/gender=M/discipline=200/index.html

Pos Athlete Nat Meets Pts

1 Bolt Usain JAM 5 68

2 Johnson Joshua J. USA 5 62

3 Spearmon Wallace USA 5 58

4 Saidy Ndure Jaysuma NOR 5 57

5 Williams Christopher JAM 5 51

6 Martin Rodney USA 5 49

7 Wissman Johan SWE 4 41

8 Dzingai Brian ZIM 5 36

9 Crawford Shawn USA 4 34

10 Hession Paul IRL 4 32