Newly-crowned Jamaican world 100m champion Yohan Blake raced to victory on Thursday night in a personal best 9.82sec at the Diamond League meeting in Zurich, ousting compatriot Asafa Powell by 0.13sec and American world silver medalist Walter Dix (10.04).

Blake, 21, had raced to gold at the worlds in Daegu in 9.92 following the sensational disqualification of favourite and world record holder Usain Bolt.

Thursday’s showing was a new personal best for Blake by 0.07sec.

Bolt skipped Zurich while Powell was making his return to the track after missing Daegu with a troublesome groin injury.

Grenadian teen Kirani James also managed a personal best time of 44.36sec in the men’s 400m to add to his world title.

James was for his part delighted to show that his own Daegu success was no flash in the pan as he hared down the home stretch to see off LaShawn Merritt once again and in the process knock a quarter of a second off his personal best.

Jamaica’s Jermaine Gonzales was third in 45.39sec.

Elsewhere, Dayron Robles bagged the 110m hurdles in 13.01sec, edging out world champion Jason Richardson to erase some of his Daegu disqualification misery.

Australian world champion Sally Pearson was again too good for allcomers as she won the women’s 100 metres hurdles in 12.52 ahead of US rival Dawn Harper (12.81) and Canada’s Phylicia George (12.84).

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