The Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell has run the fastest 100 metres of the year as he won at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne.
Powell, clear favourite after Usain Bolt chose to skip the meeting and with American Tyson Gay injured, charged out of the blocks to win in 9.78 seconds, one hundredth of a second better than Gay's time in Florida earlier this month.
Fellow Jamaican Michael Frater finished a further 0.10 seconds behind while European champion Christoph Lemaitre recovered from a poor start to take third in 9.95, not nearly enough to trouble Powell although he equalled the French record.
World record holder David Rudisha of Kenya comfortably won the 800 metres in his first Diamond League race of the season, having missed part of the season with an ankle injury.
