SA sprinter Margaret Gayen to race Olympic champion Sally Pearson at tomorrow’s Adelaide Track Classic

SOME of SA’s best athletes will go up against international stars of the track and field when the Adelaide Track Classic comes to town tomorrow.

SOME of SA’s best athletes will go up against international stars of the track and field when the Adelaide Track Classic comes to town tomorrow.

In on the of the highlights of the program, Hazelwood Park prodigy Margaret Gayen will compete against Olympic champion Sally Pearson.

Pearson will use the meet at Santos Stadium as a tune up for the World Indoor Athletics Championships next month.

She will contest the 100m and 200m in Adelaide rather than her pet 100m hurdles.

Gayen recently jumped a Commonwealth Games long jump B-qualifier.

The 19-year-old made the Australian 4x100m for last year’s World Championships in Moscow and will benefit from competing against Pearson.

The men’s triple jump will have a distinctly South Australian flavour with Lynton’s Tim McGuire set to duel with SA expat Alwyn Jones.

Jones is Commonwealth Games medallist in the event and will start heavy favourite.

McGuire recently jumped a Commonwealth Games B-qualifier in the long jump and has stated a desire to attempt the triple jump qualification.

Brighton athlete Clay Watkins will look to get back under 47 seconds for the 400m for the first time in recent seasons when he races in a stacked field.

National level stars Alex Beck, Sean Wroe and Joel Milburn are in the race with athletes effectively auditioning for the chance to run against US Olympic 400m champion LaShawn Merritt in Perth next week.

The field for the Perth race is yet to be selected and the results of Saturday’s race in Adelaide will go a long way towards determining who is picked.

Jess Trengove, will not run the women’s 5000m, preferring to target a 10,000m race in Hobart in her preparations for a marathon in Japan next month.

But fellow SA athlete Tara Palm will run the event and hopes for perfect conditions so she can attack the Commonwealth Games qualifying.