Jamaica's Usain Bolt (right) wins the men's 200 metres race at the Crystal Palace Grand Prix in London, England yesterday. At left is the USA's Rodney Martin. (Photo: AP)

LONDON, England (CMC) - Jamaicans Veronica Campbell and Usain Bolt registered the only Caribbean wins at the Norwich Union London Grand Prix yesterday when they captured the 200-metre titles.

Campbell, the reigning Olympic champion over the distance, won the women's event in 22.55 seconds, and Bolt captured the men's race in 20.06 seconds.

There were only three other Caribbean top-three finishes at the meet, including Grenada's Randy Lewis registering a career-best and national record 17.43 metres for third in the men's triple jump.

In the women's half-lap sprint, Campbell was dominant and crushed her rivals in a decent time, considering the event was contested with a negative head-wind of minus 1.9 metres per second.

Jamaica's Usain Bolt celebrates winning the men's 200 metres race at the Crystal Palace Grand Prix in London, England, yesterday. Olympic champion Veronica Campbell was also a winner in the 200m at the same meet. (Photo: AP)

American Torri Edwards clocked 23.19 seconds to be closest to Campbell at the finish and the in-form Belgian Kim Gevaert was third in 23.31.

Jamaican Kerron Stewart, who won the USA's NCAA Division One title in the event in June, finished fourth in 23.35 and Cydonie Mothersill, of the Cayman Islands, ended seventh in 23.72 seconds.

Bolt also faced negative wind (-0.1 m/s) as he battled to a narrow victory in his 200-metre run over American Wallace Spearmon (20.11). American Joshua Johnson finished third in 20.48.

Tyson Gay's bid to challenge Asafa Powell's world record flopped as he had to face a head wind (-0.8 m/s) and clocked 10.02 seconds, defeating Portugal's Francis Obikwelu (10.18).

Gay had declared this week that he was going after the Jamaican's world record of 9.77 seconds but did not appear too disappointed with his run last night.

"I was pleased with the run, winning was the main thing. If I had run (through) the line I would have run under 10 seconds," he said.

Britain's Marlon Devonish placed third in 10.26 seconds and Jamaican Dwight Thomas clocked 10.33 for eighth.
The Olympic champion Jeremy Wariner looked strong in landing the men's 400 metres in 44.05, just three-hundredths of a second off his own world-leading time.

LaShawn Merritt advertised American strength in the event with a solid 44.23 clocking for the runner-up spot, pushing Wariner all the way. They were a long way in front of Sweden's Johan Wissman (45.03) in third and Jamaica's 2002 Commonwealth Games champion Michael Blackwood finished sixth in 45.69.

Sanya Richards, who shockingly missed out on an individual 400-metre spot earlier this summer, underlined her world Number One status with a fine win in the one-lap event, dismissing her rivals in a 49.79 run.

Allyson Felix (50.17) made it a one-two finish for the USA and Jamaican Novlene Williams placed third in 50.91. Jamaican Shereefa Lloyd ended sixth in 52.12.
In the men's triple jump, American Aarik Wilson produced his best jump of the year for victory at 17.58 metres.

Bahamian Leevan Sands was denied a personal season's best as his 17.55-metre effort was aided by a following wind (+2.5 m/s) that was above the allowable limit.

Lewis, already with a plethora of Top-3 finishes in Europe so far this year, registered a career-best effort that topped his old personal record of 17.34 metres.

Olympic champion Stefan Holm captured the men's high jump at 2.32 metres ahead of the Czech Republic's Tomas Janku (2.29 metres).

Britain's Germaine Mason, the former Jamaica representative, placed fourth at 2.22 metres and the Bahamian world-leader Donald Thomas also cleared 2.22 metres for sixth spot.

Guyana's Marian Burnett struggled in the women's 800 metres and placed 10th in two minutes 07.71 seconds as Slovakia's Lucia Klocova went within 0.03 seconds of her season's best to win in 1:59.91.

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