Usain Bolt matched the fastest time this year in the 100 meters when he clocked 9.82 seconds in winning at the Athletissima meet Thursday on return from injury. The race was specially created for Bolt after he pulled out of the 200 to spare his sore Achilles' tendon in the Diamond League event. He didn't disappoint. Fellow Jamaican Yohan Blake was second in 9.96 and Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles was third in 10.16. Asafa Powell also clocked 9.82 on June 10 in Rome. The two Jamaicans will meet in Paris next week, a race Bolt said he was looking forward to. “It's going to be something big,” Bolt said. Bolt, the Olympic and world champion in the 100 and 200, said his Achilles' was still “slightly” painful during the race. Still, he beat his own expectations for a 9.88 finish and said he hopes to return to the 200 before the end of the season, provided his doctor agrees. American Walter Dix, who had been due to race Bolt in the 200, came first in that race in 19.86 seconds. Martina made 20.08, while Xavier Carter of the US finished third in 20.15. “I was very disappointed Bolt was not running, but it feels good to be leading the Diamond League today,” Dix said. Fellow American Jeremy Wariner set a world season-best in the 400, winning in 44.57 seconds ahead of countryman Lajerald Betters in 44.70. Jermaine Gonzales of Jamaica was third, clocking 44.72. Cuban hurdler Dayron Robles won the 110-meter race in 13.01 seconds. Ryan Wilson of the United States was second in 13.21, and countryman David Payne third in 13.22. In the women's 1,500m, Ethiopia's Gelete Burka also set a world season best in 3 minutes, 59.28 secs. Ibtissam Lakhouad of Morocco, who lost the race on the final meters, finished in 3:59.35. Kenyan Nancy Jebet Langat came third with 4:00.13. On a sweltering, airless night in Lausanne, some athletes, including Russian high jumper Ivan Ukhov, complained about the noise of the vuvuzela, which a handful of spectators adopted from the football World Cup. Cuban Yargelis Savigne needed her final triple jump for her season's best, bounding 14.99 meters. American Carmelita Jeter won the women's 100 in 10.99 seconds and Frenchman Renaud Lavillenie surprised Australian Olympic champion Steve Hooker in the pole vault, clearing 5.85m.
