<p> The world and Olympic champion, who set a world record 9.58 seconds 12 days earlier in Berlin, appeared to ease up slightly as he crossed the line.</p>.<p>The time was still the fifth fastest of all time over the distance. Bolt, who has not competed in every Golden League meeting this season, has not lost a 100m race for 13 months.<br /></p>.<p>“I didn’t feel fresh at the start and was a bit tired during the race. The time is not so bad though,” he said.<br /></p>.<p>Bolt appeared to begin stiffly, and he and and Powell were neck-and-neck over 70 metres, but the world champion found some extra power over the last 30 metres.</p>.<p>Powell - who had equalled a then-world record of 9.77 in Zurich three years - had to be content with second place on 9.89 ahead of Darvis Patton of the United States in 9.95.<br /></p>.<p>A capacity 26,000 crowd were in the Letzigrund stadium to see 16 individual world champions in action at the fifth of six-race the Golden League series.</p>.<p>Russian Yelena Isinbayeva set a world record 5 metres 6 centimetres in the women’s pole vault, beating the 5.05 she set in winning gold at the Beijing Olympics.</p>.<p>It was a 27th world record for Isinbayeva, who did not clear a height when failing to win a third successive title at the world championships in Berlin.</p>.<p>She is one of three athletes who stayed on course for at least a share of the IAAF Golden League 1-million-dollar jackpot which goes to the winners of all six meetings, with the finale next Friday in Brussels.<br /></p>.<p>Sanya Richards of the United States continued her quest for the jackpot by storming to 400m victory in a world best time for the year of 48.94 seconds.</p>.<p>Ethiopia’s Keninisa Bekele also kept in the jackpot running with a commanding 5000m victory in 12:52.33, another world best time this</p>.<p>year.<br /></p>.<p>Jeter clocked 10.86, to leave Stewart second, sharing 11.04 with Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas on 11.04 with world and Olympian champion Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica fourth in 11.10.</p>.<p>In the men’s 110m hurdles, world champion Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados had to settle for third behind winner Jamaican Dwight Thomas in 13.16 and Terrence Trammell of the United States.<br /></p>.<p>World champion LaShawn Merritt repeated his Berlin victory over US compatriot Jeremy Wariner over 400m, pulling away to clock 44.21 to Wariner’s 44.62.</p>.<p>Kenyan claimed a one-two in the men’s 800m where David Rudisha in 53.77 held off a late surge from Alfred Kirwa Yega, with world champion Mbulaeini Mulaudzi of South Africa third.</p>.<p>Kenyan victories also came in the 3000m steeplechase, with Ezekiel Kemboi winning in 8:04.44, and the 1500m, where Augustine Kiprono Choge crossed the line in 3:33.38 ahead of Bahrain’s Belal Mansoor Ali (3:33.74) and Kenya’s Asbel Kipruto Kiprop (3:34.09).<br /></p>.<p>World champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain demonstrated her continuing form with victory in the women’s 1500m in 3:59.16.</p>.<p>Brigitte Foster-Hylton of Jamaica was another world champion in form, posting a world’s best time for the year of 12.46 seconds in winning the 100m hurdles just ahead of Olympic champion Dawn Harper in 12.48.</p>.<p>Another world best for the year came in the men’s javelin where Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen threw 91.28m, while Portugal’s Nelson Evora won the triple-jump in 17.38m.<br /></p>.<p>Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic claimed high jump victory in 2.01 metres, beating Russian Anna Chicherova as she did at the world championships.</p>
<p> The world and Olympic champion, who set a world record 9.58 seconds 12 days earlier in Berlin, appeared to ease up slightly as he crossed the line.</p>.<p>The time was still the fifth fastest of all time over the distance. Bolt, who has not competed in every Golden League meeting this season, has not lost a 100m race for 13 months.<br /></p>.<p>“I didn’t feel fresh at the start and was a bit tired during the race. The time is not so bad though,” he said.<br /></p>.<p>Bolt appeared to begin stiffly, and he and and Powell were neck-and-neck over 70 metres, but the world champion found some extra power over the last 30 metres.</p>.<p>Powell - who had equalled a then-world record of 9.77 in Zurich three years - had to be content with second place on 9.89 ahead of Darvis Patton of the United States in 9.95.<br /></p>.<p>A capacity 26,000 crowd were in the Letzigrund stadium to see 16 individual world champions in action at the fifth of six-race the Golden League series.</p>.<p>Russian Yelena Isinbayeva set a world record 5 metres 6 centimetres in the women’s pole vault, beating the 5.05 she set in winning gold at the Beijing Olympics.</p>.<p>It was a 27th world record for Isinbayeva, who did not clear a height when failing to win a third successive title at the world championships in Berlin.</p>.<p>She is one of three athletes who stayed on course for at least a share of the IAAF Golden League 1-million-dollar jackpot which goes to the winners of all six meetings, with the finale next Friday in Brussels.<br /></p>.<p>Sanya Richards of the United States continued her quest for the jackpot by storming to 400m victory in a world best time for the year of 48.94 seconds.</p>.<p>Ethiopia’s Keninisa Bekele also kept in the jackpot running with a commanding 5000m victory in 12:52.33, another world best time this</p>.<p>year.<br /></p>.<p>Jeter clocked 10.86, to leave Stewart second, sharing 11.04 with Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas on 11.04 with world and Olympian champion Shelly-Ann Fraser of Jamaica fourth in 11.10.</p>.<p>In the men’s 110m hurdles, world champion Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados had to settle for third behind winner Jamaican Dwight Thomas in 13.16 and Terrence Trammell of the United States.<br /></p>.<p>World champion LaShawn Merritt repeated his Berlin victory over US compatriot Jeremy Wariner over 400m, pulling away to clock 44.21 to Wariner’s 44.62.</p>.<p>Kenyan claimed a one-two in the men’s 800m where David Rudisha in 53.77 held off a late surge from Alfred Kirwa Yega, with world champion Mbulaeini Mulaudzi of South Africa third.</p>.<p>Kenyan victories also came in the 3000m steeplechase, with Ezekiel Kemboi winning in 8:04.44, and the 1500m, where Augustine Kiprono Choge crossed the line in 3:33.38 ahead of Bahrain’s Belal Mansoor Ali (3:33.74) and Kenya’s Asbel Kipruto Kiprop (3:34.09).<br /></p>.<p>World champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain demonstrated her continuing form with victory in the women’s 1500m in 3:59.16.</p>.<p>Brigitte Foster-Hylton of Jamaica was another world champion in form, posting a world’s best time for the year of 12.46 seconds in winning the 100m hurdles just ahead of Olympic champion Dawn Harper in 12.48.</p>.<p>Another world best for the year came in the men’s javelin where Norway’s Andreas Thorkildsen threw 91.28m, while Portugal’s Nelson Evora won the triple-jump in 17.38m.<br /></p>.<p>Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic claimed high jump victory in 2.01 metres, beating Russian Anna Chicherova as she did at the world championships.</p>
