Among the world champions on parade are Dafne Schippers, the Dutch sprinter who retained her world 200 metres title, Greece’s Olympic pole vault champion Ekaterini Stefanidi, Tomas Walsh of New Zealand, who won the shot put in the Olympic Stadium, and Qatar’s high jump star Mutaz Essa Barshim.

But for many present at the Alexander Stadium, the most significant piece of action may be Sir Mo Farah’s final UK track event with the multiple world and Olympic 5,000 and 10,000m champion races over 3,000m in a non-scoring event.

As the final points-scoring opportunity before those IAAF Diamond League finals, this meeting will be critical for those athletes still to confirm their places in the top eight for track events or the top 12 in the field.

Barshim will seek to reach 2.40m for the first time this season against a field that includes world bronze medallist Majd Edin Ghazal of Syria.

"Now it's time to have some fun and enjoy competing without the pressure," said the Qatari today.

"I'd love to take the meeting record (2.38m), but I need good competition to push me as high as possible."

Six of the Diamond disciplines in Birmingham boast a full set of World Championships medallists. 

But perhaps the most intriguing events are the ones featuring numerous world medallists from a combination of disciplines.

The women’s 100m includes all three 200m medallists from London, plus the 100m silver and bronze medallists as well as the 100m hurdles champion.

Schippers will renew her rivalry with the two women who followed her across the finish line in the 200m in London - double world silver medallist Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast and Olympic 400m champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo of The Bahamas.

Jamaica’s Olympic champion Elaine Thompson, fifth in London, is also in the 100m field, as is Australia’s world 100m hurdles champion Sally Pearson.

The field also includes three members of Britain’s world silver medal-winning 4x100m relay team in the form of Dina Asher-Smith, Asha Philip and Desiree Henry.

World medallists from numerous events will also clash in the women’s 3,000m. 

Kenya’s Hellen Obiri and Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands, the world 5,000m gold and bronze medallists, will face the United States duo that filled the top two spots on the steeplechase podium, Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs.

World 10,000m bronze medallist Agnes Tirop of Kenya will also feature in the race.

Walsh faces the challenge of two prodigious US shot putters in London silver medallist Joe Kovacs and reigning Olympic champion Ryan Crouser.

In the women’s discus, Croatia’s world champion Sandra Perkovic faces the London silver and bronze medallists Dani Stevens of Australia and Melina Robert-Michon of France.

Similarly, the first three women triple jumpers from London - Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela, Colombia's Caterine Ibarguen and Kazakhstani Olga Rypakova respectively - will meet again.

All four women who reached the pole vault podium in London will be in action in Birmingham as Stefanidi renews her rivalry with world and Olympic silver medallist Sandi Morris of the US as well as Cuba's Yarisley Silva and Robeilys Peinado of Venezuela, the joint bronze medallists in London.

"Now the stress of the World Championships is out of the way, hopefully we can push each other to great heights," said the Greek athlete.

"My peak started in London and I think there’s more there. 

"I've had a little bit of rest, so I'm feeling strong and I think that will show."

Surprise world 400m winner Phyllis Francis will line up against US team-mate Allyson Felix, who took the 400m bronze medal in London, and silver medallist Salwa Eid Naser of Bahrain.

With this being Francis’s first IAAF Diamond League appearance of 2017, she will have to earn big points if she hopes to claim a lane in the final.

World 200m champion Ramil Guliyev will contest his specialist distance in Birmingham.

The Turk will be joined by four other men who lined up against him in the 200m final last week with Britain’s Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake, Botswana’s Isaac Makwala and US duo Ameer Webb and Isiah Young all set to be involved.