A mouth watering contest between Olympic Shot Put champion Tomasz Majewski of Poland and world champion Christian Cantwell of the USA is on the cards at the European Athletics Indoor Permit Meeting —Pedro's Cup— in Bydgoszcz on Wednesday.

The Pedros Cup in Bydgoszcz on Wednesday is Poland's biggest indoor event of 2010 and this year it will bring together most of the country's medallists from last year's World Championships in Berlin, including Shot Put star Tomasz Majewski, Anna Rogowska and Monika Pyrek, the women's Pole Vault gold and silver medallists, and men's High Jump bronze medallist Sylwester Bednarek.

The men's Shot Put at the third of this winter's European Athletics Indoor Permit Meetings re-unites the entire podium from Berlin with the 2008 Olympic champion Majewski, who got silver in the German capital, up against the American winner Christian Cantwell as well as Germany's bronze medallist Ralf Bartels, the reigning European champion.

The competition could be a partial rehearsal for the World Indoor Championships in Doha next month.

"I want to go over 21 metres at this meeting. I had been training well in South Africa before coming back to Europe." said Majewski.

Majewski lost to Bartels at his only other previous outing this season, the European Athletics Indoor Permit Meeting in Düsseldorf last week, but was not to worried there as he was just shaking off the cobwebs.

However, in Bydgoszcz, he knows that the pressure is on him to perform well in front of his home audience.

Also in the field is Germany's world junior record holder and the 2009 European Athletics Junior Championships winner David Storl, who has just entered the senior ranks.

Rogowska and Pyrek will be the stars of Pole Vault, and enthusiastically supported, but the organisers have hired the services of Russia's former world record holder Svetlana Feofanova and her compatriot Tatyana Polnova to add quality to the event.

Germany's 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships silver medallist Silke Spiegelburg and Great Britain's British Kate Dennison, are also in the impressive field.

However, the European contingent know that Brazil's Fabiana Murer will have arrived in  Poland on top form after having set a South American indoor record of 4.81m in Stuttgart on Saturday.

Bednarek will be making his first High Jump appearance of 2010 after recovering from a knee injury sustained in training at the end of last year.

It has been a phenomenal 12 months for the talented 20-year-old Pole in 2009, who also won the European Athletics Under 23 Championships title last summer.

He faces Cyprus' Kyriakos Ioannou, the silver medallist from Berlin, Russia's Andrey Tereshin and also the 2005 world champion Yuriy Krymarenko, from the Ukraine.

Along with Bednarek, Polish jumpers Grzegorz Sposob, Wojciech Theiner and Robert Wolski are also in the field.