JOIN USFormer world 100 metres champion Tyson Gay finished second behind fellow American Justin Gatlin on his return to competition after a one-year doping ban at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting on Thursday.
Gatlin, the 2004 Athens Olympics gold medallist who was later banned for four years for doping, clocked a season's best 9.80 seconds while Gay clocked 9.93. American champion Mike Rodgers, who has also served a drugs suspension, was third in 9.98.
Gay was cleared to compete in the Swiss lakeside city after the international federation decided it would not contest the United States Anti-Doping Agency's decision to halve his ban.
On a perfect summer's evening, Grenada's Olympic champion Kirani James set a personal best of 43.74 seconds in the men's 400 metres to join his American rival LaShawn Merritt on equal fifth place in the all-time list. Merritt finished second in 43.92.
Frenchman Pascal Martinot-Lagarde clocked a personal best of 13.06 seconds in the men's high hurdles, the second fastest time in the world this year, and New Zealand's Olympic and world champion Valerie Adams extended her winning streak in the women's shot put to 51 with an opening mark of 20.42 metres.
World record holder Barbora Spotakova of the Czech Republic produced her season's best with a throw of 66.72 metres in the women's javelin.
In the final event of the evening, Ukraine's Bohdan Bondarenko won the latest battle between the world's elite male high jumpers before failing with three attempts on Cuban Javier Sotomayor's 21-year-old world record mark of 2.45 metres.
Men: 100M: Justin Gatlin (US) 9.80, 1; Tyson Gay (US) 9.93, 2; Mike Rodgers (US) 9.98, 3. 200M: Alonso Edward (Panama) 19.84 seconds, 1; Nickel Ashmeade (Jamaica) 20.06, 2; Christophe Lemaitre (France) 20.11, 3. 400M: Kirani James (Grenada) 43.74 seconds, 1; LaShawn Merritt (US) 43.92, 2; Yousef Ahmed Masrahi (Saudi Arabia) 44.43 (Asian Record), 3. 1500M: Ronald Kwemoi (Kenya) 3:31.48, 1; Silas Kiplagat (Kenya) 3:31.81, 2; James Kiplagat Magut (Kenya) 3:31.91, 3. 110M hurdles: Pascal Martinot-Lagarde (France) 13.06 seconds, 1; Sergey Shubenkov (Russia) 13.13, 2; Andrew Riley (Jamaica) 13.23, 3. 400M hurdles: Javier Culson (Puerto Rico) 48.32 seconds, 1; Michael Tinsley (US) 48.40, 2; Cornel Fredericks (South Africa) 49.00, 3. 3000M steeplechase: Jairus Kipchoge Birech (Kenya) 8:03.34, 1; Conseslus Kipruto (Kenya) 8:11.93, 2; Jonathan Muia Ndiku (Kenya) 8:12.95, 3. High jump: Bohdan Bondarenko (Ukraine) 2.40, 1; Andriy Protsenko (Ukraine) 2.40, 2; Ivan Ukhov (Russia) 2.38, 3; Mutaz Essa Barshim (Qatar) 2.38, 4. Long jump: Jeff Henderson (US) 8.31 metres, 1; Greg Rutherford (Britain) 8.19, 2; Li Jinzhe (China) 8.10, 3. Pole vault: Renaud Lavillenie (France) 5.87 metres, 1; Thiago Braz da Silva (Brazil) 5.72, 2; Kevin Menaldo (France) 5.62, 3. Discus throw: Piotr Malachowski (Poland) 66.63 metres, 1; Jorge Fernandez (Cuba) 66.50, 2; Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 64.91, 3.
Women: 100M: Michelle-Lee Ahye (Trinidad and Tobago) 10.98 seconds, 1; Murielle Ahoure (Ivory Coast) 10.98, 2; English Gardner (US) 11.19, 3. 800M: Eunice Jepkoech Sum (Kenya) 1:58.48, 1; Ekaterina Poistogova (Russia) 1:58.79, 2; Tigist Assefa (Ethiopia) 1:59.24, 3. 3000M: Mercy Cherono (Kenya) 8:50.24, 1; Genzebe Dibaba (Ethiopia) 8:50.81, 2; Viola Jelagat Kibiwot (Kenya) 8:52.03, 3. Triple jump: Caterine Ibargueen (Colombia) 14.87, 1; Yekaterina Koneva (Russia) 14.67, 2; Patricia Mamona (Portugal) 14.49, 3. Shot put: Valerie Adams (New Zealand) 20.42 meters, 1; Gong Lijiao (China) 19.65, 2; Michelle Carter (US) 19.38, 3. Javelin throw: Barbora Spotakova (Czech Republic) 66.72 metres, 1; Martina Ratej (Slovenia) 64.63, 2; Kimberley Mickle (Australia) 64.20, 3.