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Olympic champion Usain Bolt clocked a wind-assisted 9.77 seconds over 100 metres at the Ostrava grand prix.

Jamaican Bolt, who set a world record of 9.69 seconds in the Beijing final last year, was assisted by a following wind of 2.1 metres a second.

Cuban world record holder Dayron Robles won the 110 metres hurdles in a season's best of 13.04 seconds.

"I am very tired today, maybe (I had) fever at night, I did not sleep well. I feel very bad," he said.

Bershawn Jackson of the United States, the bronze medallist in Beijing, clocked a season's best time of 48.32 seconds in 400 metres hurdles.

Meselech Melkamu of Ethiopia won the women's 5,000 metres in a year's best of 14 minutes 34.17 seconds.

Ethiopia's Dire Tune failed in her attack on Kenyan Tegla Loroupe's world 20 kms best, running alone in the second half to clock 1:05:35.3, 8.7 seconds off the record

"From the beginning I did not run as I wanted, I ran a long time alone, I felt very tired in the middle of the race," Tune said.

RESULTS:

Men's 100m

1. Usain Bolt (Jamaica) 9.77 secs

2. Craig Pickering (Britain) 10.08

3. Ronald Pognon (France) 10.15

Men's 200m

1. Paul Hession (Ireland) 20.44 secs

2. Brian Dzingai (Zimbabwe) 20.45

3. Nickel Ashmeade (Jamaica) 20.72

Men's 800m

1. David Lekuta Rudisha (Kenya) 1 min 44.09 secs

2. Ismail Ahmed Ismail (Sudan) 1:44.31

3. Asbel Kipruto Kiprop (Kenya) 1:44.54

Men's Mile

1. Haron Keitany (Kenya) 3 mins 49.57 secs

2. Andrew Baddeley (Britain) 3:51.83

3. Gideon Gathimba (Kenya) 3:52.98

Men's 110m Hurdles

1. Dayron Robles (Cuba) 13.04 secs

2. Dexter Faulk (US) 13.13

3. Shamar Sands (Bahamas) 13.38

Men's 400m Hurdles

1. Bershawn Jackson (US) 48.32 secs

2. Felix Sanchez (Dominican Republic) 49.20

3. Marek Plawgo (Poland) 49.59

Men's 3000m Steeplechase

1. Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya) 8 mins 9.55 secs

2. Brimin Kiprop Kipruto (Kenya) 8:09.95

3. Paul Kipsiele Koech (Kenya) 8:10.22

Men's Long Jump

1. Godfrey Khotso Mokoena (South Africa) 8.33 secs

2. Salim Sdiri (France) 8.19

3. Fabrice Lapierre (Australia) 8.13

Men's Javelin Throw

1. Mark Frank (Germany) 83.51 metres

2. Tom Goyvaerts (Belgium) 82.25

3. John Oosthuizen (South Africa) 81.18

Women's 20,000m

1. Dire Tune (Ethiopia) 1 hr 5 mins 35.30 secs

2. Leah Malot (Kenya) 1:10:35.00

3. Salina Kosgei (Kenya) 1:17:08.30

Women's 800m

1. Marilyn Okoro (Britain) 2 mins 00.21 secs

2. Elodie Guegan (France) 2:00.44

3. Jenny Meadows (Britain) 2:00.48

Women's 5000m

1. Meselech Melkamu (Ethiopia) 14 mins 34.17 secs

2. Linet Chepkwemoi Masai (Kenya) 14:34.36

3. Vivian Cheruiyot (Kenya) 14:38.26

Women's 100m Hurdles

1. Delloreen Ennis-London (Jamaica) 12.79 secs

2. Michelle Perry (US) 12.86

3. Danielle Carruthers (US) 12.90

Women's High Jump

1. Blanka Vlasic (Croatia) 2.00 metres

2. Svetlana Shkolina (Russia) 1.95

3. Irina Gordeeva (Russia) 1.95

Women's Long Jump

1. Olga Kucherenko (Russia) 6.76 metres

2. Malgorzata Trybanska (Poland) 6.56

3. Jana Veldakova (Slovakia) 6.48

Women's Javelin Throw

1. Mariya Abakumova (Russia) 66.89 metres

2. Christina Obergfoell (Germany) 66.88

3. Barbora Spotakova (Czech Republic) 65.92

Reuters