Hosts Great Britain will be joined by China, France, Germany, Jamaica, Poland, South Africa and the United States in competing at the London Stadium on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

They will all do so across field events and every track race up to and including the 1,500 metres.

Captaining the British team will be Lorraine Ugen, who set the long jump world lead with a leap of 7.05m earlier this month.

The 26-year-old also helped England win the 4x100m relay gold medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games in April.

Reigning 100m and 200m Olympic champion Elaine Thompson is part of Jamaica’s team, captained by seven-time world gold medallist Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce who continues her return to the sport following the birth of her first child.

Commonwealth champion Ronald Levy and 2015 world champion Danielle Williams will compete for Jamaica in the respective men’s and women’s sprint hurdles events. 

Gold Coast 2018 100m gold medallist Akani Simbine is part of the South African team, along with long jump world champion Luvo Manyonga.

World and Olympic hammer throw champion Anita Wlodarczyk is among the biggest stars in the Polish team along with world silver medallist Piotr Lisek in the pole vault.

Long and triple jumper Anna Jagaciak-Michalska is the nation's captain.

Top Americans competing include world pole vault champion Sam Kendricks, world indoor high jump silver medallist Vashti Cunningham and Olympic 800m bronze medallist Clayton Murphy.

They will be led by hurdler Queen Harrison.

World javelin gold medallist Katharina Molitor of Germany and world shot put gold medallist Gong Lijiao of China are the captains for their countries.

The other skippers are French pole vault record holder Ninon Guillon-Romarin and South African 100m record holder Carina Horn.

Each member of the all-female captain line-up has received a bespoke platinum badge marking 100 years since the first British women were given the right to vote in the United Kingdom, and as part of London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s "Behind Every Great City" campaign.

"London’s reputation as a world-class sporting city is unrivalled, and holding the first-ever Athletics World Cup at the London Stadium will only enhance that reputation," Khan was reported as saying by Athletics Weekly.

"We are delighted, too, that the Athletics World Cup has joined us in the 'Behind Every Great City' campaign to support the continuing success of women in sport and our push for greater gender equality.

"This year, as we mark the centenary of the first women securing the right to vote in the UK, it is a powerful symbol that these fantastic new platinum captain’s badges reference the suffragette hunger strike medals - a design with so much historical significance."

Ugen, Harrison, Gong, Guillon-Romarin and Jagaciak-Michalska received their badges from British athletics legends Sally Gunnell and Daley Thompson at the Museum of London.

"I can’t wait to lead the team out at the Athletics World Cup," Ugen was reported as saying by Athletics Weekly.

"It’s a real honour for me to have been chosen as captain and have the chance to lead out the Great Britain and Northern Ireland team.

"To have received this platinum captain’s badge from athletics legends such as Sally and Daley is a very proud moment.

"Now we are set to go out there and take on the world this weekend."

Britain’s team for the two-day event, which will clash with the FIFA World Cup final and the end of Wimbledon, lacks many of its major stars.

Among the high-profile absentees are top sprinters such as British champion Reece Prescod, Zharnel Hughes, Adam Gemili, Chijindu Ujah and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake as well as Dina Asher-Smith, the British record holder for the 100m and 200m.

Middle-distance star Laura Muir is also not competing.

The US team will be lacking major stars such as Noah Lyles, the fastest man in the world this year, and fellow sprinters Christian Coleman and world champion Justin Gatlin.

Other athletes who missed the US Championships, such as Allyson Felix, Tori Bowie, LaShawn Merritt and Olympic 400m hurdles champion Dalilah Muhammad, will also be absent.