Rieti, Italy – The annual meeting in Rieti, now part of the IAAF World Challenge, celebrates its 40th anniversary this weekend. Kenya’s new 800m World record holder* David Rudisha and US record holder and Olympic 110m Hurdles bronze medallist David Oliver will lead the annual parade of stars on Sunday afternoon (29) at the town’s Raul Guidobaldi Stadium. Looking for “something great” Rudisha will be gunning for another fast time one week after breaking the 13-year-old World 800m record held by Dane Wilson Kipketer, with a 1:41.09 achieved at the Berlin World Challenge meeting last Sunday. Rudisha has fulfilled last year’s promise to return to Rieti where he set the then African record of 1:42.01 in a memorable race. The Kenyan has lowered thisAarea record time twice this year to 1:41.51 in Heusden Zolder and now the 1:41.09 in Berlin, and a serious attempt to break the 1:41 barrier at Rieti’s famous “temple” to middle-distance running is within his reach. “I will return to achieve something great”, said Rudisha last year. His friend and pacemaker Sammy Tangui is charged to pace him in the first 400 metres at a mind-boggling 48.5. The world seasonal best time has been set nine times in the history of the meeting. Rudisha will face Boaz Lalang, second in the Berlin World record race, and European gold and silver medallists Marcin Lewandowski from Poland and Britain’s Michael Rimmer. Oliver looking for 6th sub-13 of season David Oliver comes to Rieti after a fabulous season in which he’s achieved five races under 13 seconds at the 110m Hurdles. The fast Rieti track may see another World record attempt by the red-hot hurdler. He set his last sub-13 sec at the Zürich Samsung Diamond League meeting where he clocked 12.93 and won the Diamond Trophy to crown an impressive Diamond League campaign in which he won four other times in Shanghai, Eugene, Paris, Monaco and broke the US record in Paris with 12.89, missing Dayron Robles’ world record by 0.02 sec. On the Rieti track, Oliver takes on fellow American Ryan Wilson, Jamaican record holder Dwight Thomas, Britain’s European champion Andy Turner, who won in Barcelona in 13.28, and Czech Petr Svoboda. The Rieti meeting record set by Briton Colin Jackson with 13.07 in 1994 is certainly under threat.