T&T's Je­hue Gor­don, the reign­ing World 400m men's hur­dles IAAF World cham­pi­on will look to end his sea­son with an­oth­er gold medal per­for­mance when he lines up in a star-stud­ded field in the IAAF Di­a­mond League Grand Prix in Brus­sels, Bel­gium at the Bel­ga­com Van Damme Memo­r­i­al, to­day.

At last month's World Cham­pi­onship in Rus­sia, Gor­don pro­duced a strong fin­ish to pip Amer­i­can Michael Tins­ley for the gold medal by a hun­dredth of a sec­ond while Ser­bian Emir Bekric was third in 48.05.

Tins­ley, who led in­to the straight, be­fore be­ing caught by Gor­don, is al­so in the field.

The oth­er fin­ish­ers were Cuban Omar Cis­neros (48.12), Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Olympic cham­pi­on Fe­lix Sanchez (48.22), Puer­to Ri­can, Javier Cul­son (48.38), Sene­gal's Ma­madou Kasse Hanne (48.68) and T&T-born Amer­i­can, Ker­ron Clement (49.08).

To­day's event will com­prise al­most the same field with on­ly Bekric and Clement the two ab­sent ath­letes and their lanes be­ing filled by home­town en­trant Stef Van­haeren and USA's Justin Gay­man and the ninth com­peti­tor, Great Britain's Rhys Williams.

In ad­di­tion to Tins­ley, oth­er se­ri­ous chal­lenges to Gor­don to­day could come from Fe­lix Sanchez and Cis­neros, who came close to se­cur­ing Cu­ba's first medal in the event in Moscow and Di­a­mond League leader, Cul­son with 13 points, four more than Tins­ley.

Lo­cal sprint­er Ke­ston Bled­man will have a much hard­er task of medalling as he will be the un­der­dog in the men's 100m fi­nal, which is spear-head­ed by Ja­maican Olympic and World cham­pi­on, Us­ain Bolt, who is ex­pect­ed to be the head­line per­former.

The 25-year-old Bled­man will en­ter the race high on con­fi­dence fol­low­ing back to back wins in Eu­rope over the last week.

First he won the men 100m fi­nal at the Flame Games in Am­s­ter­dan, Hol­land in 10.11 while he top the field at the palio Cit­ta del­la Quer­cia Meet in Rovere­to, Italy in 10.04, a new meet record. It was his sec­ond best time of the sea­son, just off his 10.02 clock­ing in the heats at the World Cham­pi­onships.

Apart from Bled­man, St Kitts/Nevis vet­er­an, Kim Collins, France's Jim­my Vi­caut, Eng­land's James Dasaolu, USA's Justin Gatlin and Michael Rodgers and Ja­maicans, Ke­mar Bai­ley-Cole and Nes­ta Carter will all be hop­ing to up­set Bolt.

Bai­ley-Cole is al­so com­ing off a re­cent win at the ISTAF Ath­let­ics Meet­ing in Berlin, Ger­many in 10.04 well ahead of Collins, who crossed the line in 10.15.

How­ev­er, to date, Bolt has won four times in Brus­sels and three of those vic­to­ries have been in the 100m mak­ing him the over­whelm­ing favourite.

Two years ago he set a meet­ing record of 9.76, bet­ter­ing by 0.01 his own meet­ing record from three years pri­or which was run in­to a -1.3m/s head­wind.

This year Bolt will be up against five oth­er 100m fi­nal­ists from Moscow, in­clud­ing sil­ver medal­list Justin Gatlin (USA) and bronze medal­list Nes­ta Carter (Ja­maica).

Over­all, no less than 59 medal­lists from the re­cent IAAF World Cham­pi­onships in Moscow will take part in Brus­sels and nine events will fea­ture the gold, sil­ver and bronze medal­lists from the Russ­ian cap­i­tal.