European shot put silver medallist Zane Weir faces a stern test at the Serbia Athletics Meeting on Wednesday (2), which will be live streamed from 17:18 CEST on the European Athletics website*.
The Italian athlete, who won silver at Birmingham 2026 last month to add to the European indoor gold he won in 2023, will face USA’s Payton Otterdahl, who finished fourth at the Paris Olympics.
Also lining up in an intriguing men’s shot put is Weir’s international teammate Nick Ponzio, who was sixth at Birmingham 2026 and is fresh from winning gold at the Mediterranean Games in Taranto, Italy, this week.
It is one of 12 events taking place at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting in Belgrade.
There are also some high-quality entrants in the sprint hurdles, including South Africa’s World University Games bronze medallist Mondray Barnard in the men’s 110m hurdles and Jamaica’s world indoor bronze medallist Ackera Nugent in the women’s 100m hurdles.
Former European U23 bronze medallist Lena Pressler of Austria lines up in a tough women’s 400m hurdles field that includes two-time African medallist Ashley Miller of Zimbabwe.
The 100m races feature quality entries from North America, including Pan American Games gold medallist Sade McCreath of Canada in the women’s race and USA’s world 4x100m gold medallist Ronnie Baker in the men’s race.
Venezuela’s South American gold medallist Javier Gómez will start as one of the favourites in the men’s 400m, which also includes Great Britain’s Olympic and world 4x400m bronze medallist Alex Haydock-Wilson.
In the field, Bulgaria’s former European indoor silver medallist Gabriela Petrova lines up in the women’s triple jump.
*geoblocked in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Slovenia