<p>Gay, coming back from a hamstring injury that dashed his Beijing Olympic hopes, ran away from the field to post a time bettered only by Usain Bolt's world record 19.30 set in Beijing, and the 19.32 run by Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics. <br /><br />It was the first 200 metres race of the year for world champion Gay, who had only run two 400 metres events in 2009. <br /><br />Fellow-American Wallace Spearmon was second in 19.98 followed by compatriot Xavier Carter in 20.27 with Jeremy Wariner another three-hundredths of a second back. <br /><br />Gay was running the 200 for the first time on US soil since 2008 Olympic trials, where he injured his hamstring. <br /><br />The Icahn Stadium track has been to Gay's liking. In 2007 he won the 100 in a wind-aided 9.76 seconds. Last year he ran 9.85 to finish second behind Bolt, who set his first 100 metres world record with a time of 9.72. <br /><br />Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell did not fare as well, finishing seventh in the 100 behind American winner Mike Rodgers, who clocked 9.93 seconds. <br />Jamaica's Powell ran 10.10. Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson of Trinidad finished fifth in 10.01. <br /><br />Jamaican Olympic and world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was upstaged in the women's 100 by American Carmelita Jeter, who won in a fast, wind-aided (2.8 m/sec) 10.85 seconds. <br /><br />American Muna Lee was second in 10.88 followed by Campbell-Brown in 10.91. <br />American Lauryn Williams, who finished fifth in Saturday's 100, came back to win the 200 in a 2009 best 22.34 seconds, ahead of compatriot Shalonda Solomon and Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas. <br /><br />Other stellar women's performances on a breezy day included American Allyson Felix's 50.50 in the 400 metres, American Anna Willard's 1:59.29 in the 800, Kenyan Linet Masai taking the 5,000 in 14:35.39 and American Jenn Stuczynski's 4.81 metres in the pole vault. <br /><br />Micah Kogo of Kenya won the men's 5,000 metres in a season-best 13:02.90 ahead of American double world champion Bernard Lagat and Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia.</p>
<p>Gay, coming back from a hamstring injury that dashed his Beijing Olympic hopes, ran away from the field to post a time bettered only by Usain Bolt's world record 19.30 set in Beijing, and the 19.32 run by Michael Johnson at the 1996 Olympics. <br /><br />It was the first 200 metres race of the year for world champion Gay, who had only run two 400 metres events in 2009. <br /><br />Fellow-American Wallace Spearmon was second in 19.98 followed by compatriot Xavier Carter in 20.27 with Jeremy Wariner another three-hundredths of a second back. <br /><br />Gay was running the 200 for the first time on US soil since 2008 Olympic trials, where he injured his hamstring. <br /><br />The Icahn Stadium track has been to Gay's liking. In 2007 he won the 100 in a wind-aided 9.76 seconds. Last year he ran 9.85 to finish second behind Bolt, who set his first 100 metres world record with a time of 9.72. <br /><br />Former 100 metres world record holder Asafa Powell did not fare as well, finishing seventh in the 100 behind American winner Mike Rodgers, who clocked 9.93 seconds. <br />Jamaica's Powell ran 10.10. Olympic silver medallist Richard Thompson of Trinidad finished fifth in 10.01. <br /><br />Jamaican Olympic and world champion Veronica Campbell-Brown was upstaged in the women's 100 by American Carmelita Jeter, who won in a fast, wind-aided (2.8 m/sec) 10.85 seconds. <br /><br />American Muna Lee was second in 10.88 followed by Campbell-Brown in 10.91. <br />American Lauryn Williams, who finished fifth in Saturday's 100, came back to win the 200 in a 2009 best 22.34 seconds, ahead of compatriot Shalonda Solomon and Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas. <br /><br />Other stellar women's performances on a breezy day included American Allyson Felix's 50.50 in the 400 metres, American Anna Willard's 1:59.29 in the 800, Kenyan Linet Masai taking the 5,000 in 14:35.39 and American Jenn Stuczynski's 4.81 metres in the pole vault. <br /><br />Micah Kogo of Kenya won the men's 5,000 metres in a season-best 13:02.90 ahead of American double world champion Bernard Lagat and Dejen Gebremeskel of Ethiopia.</p>