JAMAICANS Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson shone at yesterday's DN Galan track and field meet in Stockholm, Sweden yesterday.
In his usual style, Powell blew away the field to win in 9.86, his eighth sub-10 seconds clocking in three months.
Apart from American Tyson Gay, who finished second in 9.97, Powell once again, with the absence of joint world record holder Justin Gatlin, proved he is untouchable.
"All I was worried about was running against the clock and did not mind anybody else in the race," Powell said after breaking the stadium record and collecting a one ounce diamond.
Good run
"I felt good .... I was out for the win and I thought the record was very easy to break," said Powell, who ran unchallenged from start to finish.
In another sizzling display, Simpson destroyed a top-class field, minus Olympic champion Veronica Campbell, who she has defeated twice this season, to win in 22.00, equalling her personal best and season best.
Simpson's 22 seconds was a repeat of her run for the national title in June, which again signalled the fastest time since Inger Miller ran 21.77 in August 1999.
Only three faster
Again, only Merlene Ottey (21.64), Grace Jackson (21.72) and Juliet Cuthbert (21.75), as Jamaicans, have gone faster.
Simpson, like at the National Stadium in June, expressed shock at running so fast.
"Twenty two flat! A world leading mark into headwind, wow!" was how the Commonwealth Games gold medallist expressed her feelings.
In the women's 100m hurdles, World Championship bronze medallist Brigitte Foster-Hylton, finished second in 12.72 behind world champion Michael Perry (12.60).
Delloreen Ennis-London, the World Championships silver medallist failed to finish in the women's 100m hurdles.
Christopher Williams (20.66) and Ainsley Waugh (20.73) finished fourth and fifth in
the 200m respectively. Wallace Spearmon won the event in 20.08 LaShawn Merritt (20.25).
Former Jamaica national champion Brandon Simpson, now running for Bahrain, ran a season best 44.87 for third in the men's 400m event. He was beaten by Jeremy Wariner of the United States who won the event in
44.02 ahead of Gary Kikaya of Democratic Republic of Congo 44.53.
Meanwhile, Steve Mullings, who returned from a two-year ban imposed by the Jamaica Athletic Amateur Association (JAAA) a year ago, will be in action today in Helsinki.
Mullings finished second in the men's 100m in 10.31 and in the 200m in 20.54 at Monday's Thessaloniki Grand Prix in Greece.
