Kishane is fast and furious!

Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson - the world’s fastest man this year – intends to prove that he is the dominant sprinter now.

Thompson races American sprint star Noah Lyles in the 100 metres at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Silesia, Poland on August 16.

The pair will line up in a long-awaited rematch of their thrilling Olympic 100m final last year in Paris. Lyles claimed gold and Thompson silver despite both clocking 9.79 seconds, Lyles winning after a photo finish by just five thousandths of a second.

A year on from that historic race, the two go head-to-head for the first time since the Olympics at the Kamila Skolimowsa Memorial.

Both champs are confident of victory in what could be a prelude for another major championship final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo later this year.

Thompson is in electric form, having clocked 9.75secs at the Jamaican national championships in Kingston in June before claiming a first ever Diamond League win with an impressive 9.85secs at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene a few weeks later.

Lyles’ campaign has been hampered by injuries and he suffered a shock defeat to Jamaica’s Oblique Seville in his first 100m of the season at the Diamond League meeting in London last month.

Yet he made a winning start to his Diamond League campaign in the 200m in Monaco a week previously, beating Olympic champion Letsile Tebogo with a sharp 19.88secs.

Both Lyles, 28, and Thompson, 24, know a victory could also see them qualify for the Wanda Diamond League Final in Zurich over August 27-28.

Thompson is currently third in the 100m standings on 13 points, while Lyles is outside the qualification spots in 14th.

While the men’s sprint duel is generating global buzz, the women’s 100m promises to deliver fireworks of its own. Olympic champion Julien Alfred, the newly crowned queen of the distance from Paris, will face off against Poland’s local favourite Ewa Swoboda.

Alfred, 24, who also won 200m Olympic silver medallist last year, is in sizzling form. The St Lucian won the women’s 200m at Diamond League London three weeks ago with a world-leading time of 21.71secs.