Monaco: Tyson Gay was disappointed with his performance after winning the 200 metres in a meeting record 19.72 seconds at the Monaco Diamond League event on Thursday.
The 27-year-old was ahead off the bend and poised for a comfortable victory until Jamaican Yohan Blake, running in lane eight, came blazing down the home straight and almost closed the gap on the tiring American.
"I ran too wide in the corner, I slipped a bit. I wanted to run faster but it's okay," Gay, the 2007 world champion, told reporters.
Blake, training partner of world record holder Usain Bolt, clocked 19.78 to improve his personal best by almost a second.
On a hot and humid evening that produced seven world leading efforts, there was also frustration for 110 metres hurdler David Oliver, who had targeted Dayron Robles' world record of 12.87 but hit two barriers on his way to the line in 13.01.
"My reaction wasn't really good. I wasn't ready. I wasn't completely set," said Oliver, who ran 12.89 in Paris last week.
Kenyan Silas Kiplagat pipped Moroccan Amine Laalou on the line in the men's 1,500 to post a year's best time of 3:29.27 and lower his personal best by five seconds.
Triple world long jump champion Dwight Phillips posted 8.46 metres on his first attempt to improve the year's best he set in Rome last month.
Men
200m:
1. Tyson Gay (U.S.) 19.72secs
2. Yohan Blake (Jamaica) 19.78
3. Wallace Spearmon (U.S.) 19.93
4. Xavier Carter (U.S.) 20.14
400m:
1. Jermaine Gonzales (Jamaica) 44.40secs
2. Ricardo Chambers (Jamaica) 44.54
3. Chris Brown (Bahamas) 45.05
1500m:
1. Silas Kiplagat (Kenya) 3mins 29.27secs
2. Amine Laalou (Morocco) 3:29.53
3. Augustine Choge (Kenya) 3:30.22
110m hurdles:
1. David Oliver (U.S.) 13.01secs
2. Ryan Wilson (U.S.) 13.13
3. Dwight Thomas (Jamaica) 13.29
High jump:
1. Ivan Ukhov (Russia) 2.34m
2. Andrey Silnov (Russia) 2.28
2=. Jesse Williams (U.S.) 2.28
Long jump:
1. Dwight Phillips (U.S.) 8.46m
2. Fabrice Lapierre (Australia) 8.18
3. Pavel Shalin (Russia) 8.15
Discus throw:
1. Gerd Kanter (Estonia) 67.81m
2. Zoltan Koevago (Hungary) 66.89
3. Piotr Malachowski (Poland) 66.45
Women
100m:
1. Carmelita Jeter (U.S.) 10.82secs
2. Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica) 10.98
3. Kelly-Ann Baptiste (Trinidad and Tobago) 11.03
800m:
1. Alysia Johnson (U.S.) 1min 57.34secs
2. Jemma Simpson (Britain) 1:58.74
3. Anna Pierce (U.S.) 1:58.89
3,000m:
1. Sentayehu Ejigu (Ethiopia) 8mins 28.41secs
2. Maryam Yusuf Jamal (Bahrain) 8:29.20
3. Shannon Rowbury (U.S.) 8:31.38
400m hurdles:
1. Kaliese Spencer (Jamaica) 53.63secs
2. Natalya Antyukh (Russia) 54.24
3. Sheena Tosta (U.S.) 54.52
Pole vault:
1. Fabiana Murer (Brazil) 4.80m
2. Svetlana Feofanova (Russia) 4.70
3. Lacy Janson (U.S.) 4.60
Triple jump:
1. Yargelis Savigne (Cuba) 15.09m
2. Olga Rypakova (Kazakhstan) 14.78
3. Anna Pyatykh (Russia) 14.43
Shot put:
1. Nadezhda Ostapchuk (Belarus) 20.23m
2. Valerie Vili (New Zealand) 20.20
3. Natallia Mikhnevich (Belarus) 19.43
Javelin throw:
1. Barbora Spotakova (Czech Republic) 65.76m
2. Kara Patterson (U.S.) 64.21
3. Sunette Viljoen (South Africa) 59.93.
