Bolt's blistering 9.76 100m highlights Jamaica International

Usain Bolt posted a sizzling 9.76sec - second fastest 100m time in history - to top four world leading times Saturday at the Jamaica International Invitation athletics meeting.

Americans Lashinda Demus, Kerron Clement, along with Jamaican Kerron Stewart were the other athletes to achieve world leading times in this season geared toward the Beijing Olympics in August.

World sprint double champion Tyson Gay of the United States won the men's 200m in 20.00 seconds, beating Chris Williams of Jamaica (20.78) while Bianca Knight (22.62) beat Olympic champion Veronica Campbell-Brown (22.93) in the women's event.

American Sanya Richards won the women's 400m in 50.60sec.

But Jamaica's Bolt was the undisputed star of the night.

He was sent to his marks three times in a race that saw two false starts, but recovered to shock the world with his impressive 9.76 seconds, two-hundredths of second outside countryman Asafa Powell's world mark of 9.74.

American Darvis Patton was second in 10:08, while Antiguan Daniel Bailey was third in 10.12. American Wallace Spearmon, the World Championships silver medallist, was fifth.

Bolt, who had a 1.8m/sec wind, inside the legal limit of 2.0m/sec, admitted he was a bit shocked by the time.

"I was definitely surprised when I saw the time," said Bolt, who was hoping to run more along the lines of 9.85.

Asked if the performance meant he was closing in on compatriot Asafa Powell's world record of 9.74, Bolt replied: "You never know, you never know".

Powell was out of action Saturday after pulling pectoral muscle while weight training.

While he didn't expect to miss much training, Powell's manager said earlier this week that he wouldn't compete again until the Jamaican Olympic trials June 27-29.

Stewart, a member of Jamaica's silver medal 4x100m team at last year's World Championships in Osaka, also blazed the track to win the women's 100m in 10.96 seconds.

In the night's opening events, the 400m hurdles, Americans Clement, the world champion, took the men's race in 47.79 seconds, ahead of Danny McFarlane of Jamaica (48.74) and Michael Tinsely of United States (48.84).

In the women's 400m hurdles, Demus won in 54.83 seconds, beating Jamaican Shevon Stoddart (55.68) and American Markita James (56.79).