OSLO, Norway (AP) — Asafa Powell ran a wind-aided 9.72 seconds to win the 100 metres at the Diamond League’s Bislett Games here yesterday. The Jamaican set the year’s fastest legal time last week, clocking 9.83secs in Ostrava, Czech Republic. His time yesterday was assisted by a wind measuring 2.1 metres per second.

“I’m not frustrated but I wish it (the wind) was not so much. But still, I’m pretty happy about my time,” Powell said. “I got a great start, but the last part of the race I was pushing too hard because my legs felt bad.”

In the absence of injured world record holder Usain Bolt and Tyson Gay, Powell was never really pushed after cruising through the heats and later said he will be confident the next time he faces his rivals.

“I’m only just going to get better and better each competition, so I’ll definitely be in shape to beat them,” Powell said.

Richard Thompson of Trinidad and Tobago finished second and Churandy Martina took third.

Despite a dry track and a vocal crowd, nobody was able to set what would have been the 70th world record at the stadium.

David Rudisha won a highly anticipated battle in the 800m against Abubaker Kaki of Sudan. The Kenyan’s time of 1:42.04 is the year’s fastest and beats the track record set by Sebastian Coe in 1979. Kaki came second in a closely fought race.

American athletes performed well at the Diamond League’s third stop of a 14-meet series.

Kerron Clement and Bershawn Jackson renewed their rivalry in the 400m hurdles, with the former beating the latter into second place with a time of 48.12 in a close finish.

Carmelita Jeter, a 100m specialist, was upgraded to victory in the

200m after Lashauntea Moore was disqualified for a lane violation. Debbie McKenzie-Ferguson of the Bahamas went from third to second and Russia’s Alexandra Fedoriva from fourth to third.

Christian Cantwell extended his domination in the shot put, throwing 21.31 metres to finish ahead of Dylan Armstrong of Canada and Tomasz Majewski of Poland.

Lolo Jones won the 100m hurdles in 12.66, ahead of Canadian pair Priscilla Lopes-Schliep and Felicien Perdita.

In the women’s high jump, reigning world champion Blanka Vlasic of Croatia won ahead of Chaunte Howard-Lowe of the United States.

Amantle Montsho from Botswana won the women’s 400m, finishing ahead of Jamaica’s Novlene Williams-Mills and Debbie Dunn of the

United States. Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu from Great Britain was fourth.

The stadium’s biggest cheers were reserved for when home-crowd favourite Andreas Thorkildsen won the javelin.

The Diamond League is the successor to the Golden League. There is a total of $6.3 million in prize money across 32 track and field disciplines. The top performers in each event at the end of the season will get $40,000 as well as a diamond trophy valued at $10,000.