Simbine gears up for a street-showdown against Tyson Gay

AKANI SIMBINE will have another opportunity to highlight his class against a worldclass field at the Adidas Boston Boost Games this weekend.

The South African sensation will again line up against former world champions Yohan Blake of Jamaica and American Tyson Gay in the five-lane 100m race in Boston’s Charles Street.

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finally got one over Blake – who is joint-second on the world alltime performers’ list with his personal best of 9.69 seconds – at the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games last month.

Blake has had the South African’s number, finishing ahead of him at both the Rio 2016 Olympics and 2017 World Championships 100m finals.

Simbine boasts the fifth fastest time this season with his Commonwealth winning time of 10.03.

The race will also include Britain’s Zharnel Hughes with a season’s best of 10.01, with Trinidad and Tobago’s Keston Bledmon completing the draw.

Simbine will be joined in Boston by compatriot Dominique Scott-Efurd racing in the 1 500m.

This will be Scott-Efurd’s first competitive race since joined Joe Bosshard’s training group which includes world steeplechase champion Emma Coburn of the USA.

Scott-Efurd last lined up against 1 500m record-holder Caster Semenya at the Athletix Grand Prix meeting in Paarl in March.

She clocked a season’s best of 4: 08.61, finishing behind Semenya to fall 0.57s short of her personal best.

The South African will line up against Ethiopia’s 2016 world indoor medalists Dawit Seyaum and Gudaf Tsegay.

Meanwhile, former world 200m bronze medallist Anaso Jobodwana will make open his international campaign in the IAAF World Challenge series opener at the Jamaica International Invitational Meeting today.

Jobodwana will line up against two-time world 400m champion LaShawn Merritt of the USA and Commonwealth Games silver medallist Aaron Brown of Canada in the halflap sprint.

The South African will be looking to make up for the false start debacle at the Commonwealth Games where he missed out on the 200m final.

He false-started in the semifinal but was allowed to race, only to be disqualified retroactively.

It will also be Jobodwana’s first race since he moved back to the States to join up with his wife and child.

Jobodwana boasts the eighth fastest time this season – the 20.07 he clocked in Paarl in March.