OLYMPIC champion Usain Bolt and World champion Yohan Blake both opened their competitive season last night with commanding performances at the fifth UTech Track and Field Classic at the National Stadium.

Despite running under rainy and cold conditions, Blake sped to a World Leading 9.90 seconds clocking in the men’s 100m after teaming with Bolt and two other Racers Track Club members to set another World Leading time of 37.82 seconds in the 4x100m race.

Three World Leading times and five meet records were set up to press time last night as Racers’ Rosemarie Whyte won the women’s 400m in 51.13 seconds.

In front of a small but appreciative crowd, both men delivered, sending signals that they will be hard to beat later in the season.

Blake, who at 21 years old last year became the youngest man to win the 100m at the World Championships, was surprised by his time and told reporters he was ahead of schedule in training.

The top four men were all under the old record of 10.20 seconds set in 2008 by Barbadian Andrew Hinds, as Jacques Harvey of UTech was second in 10.10 seconds and Sheldon Mitchell of SWEPT was third in 10.18 seconds.

Wolmer’s schoolboy Odean Skeen won his heat in a personal best 10.33 seconds, two weeks after being disqualified from the Class One 100m final at the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletics Championships.

Despite admitting to being “anxious” before the relays, double World Record holder Bolt erased doubts about his fitness and readiness for the track season by leading his Racers TC team to a World Leading and meet record 37.82 seconds.

The quartet of Mario Forsythe, Blake, Kimmari Roach and Bolt, easily beat an MVP team anchored by former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell, who finished in 38.27 seconds, second fastest in the world so far and which was also under the old meet record of 38.46 seconds set by MVP in 2009.

UTech were third in 38.99 seconds.

Great Britain’s Dwayne Chambers led off the MVP team, handing over to Michael Frater, who handed off to Nesta Carter.

After the race Bolt told reporters he was a bit anxious. “Yes I am always a bit nervous before my first race, but I got through it okay and that is good.

“I am always wondering if I am still fast, even if I am doing well in training, so it is always good to come out here and run.”

After about 10 minutes swarming down, he said the weather did not affect him. “This is what we are accustomed to in Europe and I went out there and executed.”

Bolt, who said he was healthy “though not as smooth as I want”, downplayed the anxiety over the late start to the season, saying it was up to coach Glen Mills to decide when he would run. “It’s all about the coach, he decides when and where I run, it’s always up to him.”

Bolt was due to run the 200m last night but the deteriorating weather condition forced him to pull out.

The MVP women’s team of Shericka Williams, Sherone Simpson, Anniesha McLaughlin and Trinidadian Ayanna Hutchinson broke the meet record in the 4x100m in 44.12 seconds set in 2008 by GC Foster, in 44.08 seconds, ahead of UTech (46.36secs) and Mico University (47.48secs).

Beijing Olympic finalist Whyte easily beat the MVP pair of Anneisha McLaughlin (52.49secs) and Stephanie McPherson (52.98secs) to replace Sherone Simpson’s 51.42 seconds as the world leader.

Oral Thompson, the 2010 national champion, won the men’s quarter-mile in 45.95 seconds as his late surge took him past Edino Steele (46.16secs) and Diego Armando Palomeque of Colombia (46.36secs).

Despite small fields, both sprint hurdle records fell to UWI’s Hansle Parchment and Shermaine Williams.

Parchment, the World University Games champion, ran 13.71secs for the 110m hurdles to beat the old time of 14.14secs set in 2009 by Jean Juste of University of Albany, with Markino Buckley second in 14.32secs and Simon Dickens of UTech third in 14.36secs.

Williams, the 2008 World Junior Championships silver medallist, won the 100m hurdles in 13.15secs, just breaking the 13.16secs set in 2008 by Brigitte Foster-Hylton, beating Latoya Greaves (13.17secs) in a close finish, while Andrea Bliss was third in 13.53secs.