Every medallist from the major international championships of the past three years is confirmed for the star-studded women’s high jump contest at the 2014 Prefontaine Classic, an IAAF Diamond League meeting, on 31 May, organisers announced on Monday (14).

World and Olympic high jump silver medallist Brigetta Barrett is a talented all-rounder with a passion for singing, poetry and acting. We speak to the US athlete about how she operates at work, rest and play.

A Russian won the women’s High Jump but the plaudits went to Svetlana Skholina rather than the defending World champion and London 2012 Olympic Games winner, and many people’s favourite, Anna Chicherova.

There will be 13 women in Saturday’s final as common sense prevailed on Thursday morning after that number of women cleared 1.92m.

The battle for the gold medal looks to be between Russia’s reigning Olympic champion and defending World champion Anna Chicherova and the USA’s London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Brigetta Barrett and there is little to choose between them on current form.

Monaco is clearly a good place for Mo Farah. Two years ago at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in the Stade Louis II he set his personal best 5000m time of 12:53.11, and two years before that his 1500m personal best of 3:33.98.

Jamaica's Nesta Carter provided the highlight of the 'Meeting de Madrid 2013', an IAAF World Challenge Meeting, on Saturday (13) with an outstanding 9.87 run performance in the men's 100m on Saturday (13).

The women’s High Jump contest should be one of the main attraction at the ‘Meeting de Madrid 2013’, an IAAF World Challenge meeting and Spain’s most prestigious athletics event, thanks to the presence of USA’s London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Brigetta Barrett and Croatia’s two-time former World champion Blanka Vlasic on Saturday (13).

Brigetta Barrett is an accomplished singer and so she probably knows Alice Cooper’s 70s rock anthem ‘Schools Out’ off by heart. It’s probably a tune she and the Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce have been mentally humming ever since the start from the summer.

Tyson Gay, Sally Pearson and Brianna Rollins are just some of the many international stars added to the line-up for the Herculis IAAF Diamond League meeting on 19 July.

Brianna Rollins still doesn’t know how fast she can run in the women’s 100m Hurdles.

The women’s High Jump at the 106th Millrose Games will be truly memorable as USA’s Chaunte Lowe and Brigetta Barrett today announced that they will compete at the Armory on February 16.