RACE TO FINISH: Lolo Jones (16) of the United States wins the women’s 100m hurdles ahead of compatriot Kellie Wells, at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo yesterday. Jones won in 12.92 seconds. (LEFT) Tyson Gay of the United States en route to winning the 100m in 9.86 seconds, ahead of compatriot Davis Patton (968), at the Jamaica international invitational, in Kingston on Saturday. (AFP)AFP/JamaicaUS sprinter Tyson Gay laid down an impressive early-season marker on Saturday, winning the 100m at the Jamaica Invitational athletics meeting in 9.86 seconds. Gay, winner of the 100m, 200m and 4x100m world titles in 2007, recovered from a poor start to roar past Jamaican Nesta Carter, who finished second 17-hundredths of a second back. American Darvis Patton was third, 21-hundredths of a second behind the winner. Gay became the first sprinter to run under 10 seconds in the 100m this season, which will be highlighted by the World Championships in Moscow in August. Gay, 30, is the second-fastest performer of all time in the 100m behind Jamaican world record-holder Usain Bolt, who was slated to run the 200m at Kingston but pulled out with a hamstring strain. Gay, hindered by injuries in recent years, said he feels better than he has in some time. “I’m getting back to full fitness, but I am being very patient with it,” he said. “I am feeling good, the best I have been in a long while, and I am looking forward to Moscow and will give it all I’ve got.” In the women’s 100m, Jamaican Veronica Campbell-Brown — the 2012 Olympic bronze medallist — won in 11.01secs. American Allyson Felix, Olympic champion in the 200m in London last year, settled for fifth place (11.13). Jamaican Nickel Ashmeade won the men’s 200m in a season-leading 20.00 secs, beating compatriot and 2012 Olympic bronze medallist Warren Weir (20.14) and American Wallace Spearmon (20.32). Jamaica’s Stephanie McPherson won the women’s 400m, lowering the world-leading mark for the third time this season with a time of 50.43 secs. Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu was second in 50.58. Americans Dawn Harper in the 100m hurdles and Antwon Hicks in the 110m hurdles notched season-leading times. Harper clocked 12.62sec to beat compatriot Queen Harrison while Hicks triumphed in 13.25 secs.Rodgers wins 100m in Tokyo, Japan’s Kiryu finishes thirdTokyo: American Mike Rodgers won the men’s 100 metres comfortably with Japanese teenage sensation Yoshihide Kiryu finishing third in his international debut, at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix yesterday. Rodgers clocked 10.19 seconds to beat Derrick Atkins of Bahamas into second in 10.24.High-school student Kiryu, who is only 17 years old, equalled the world junior record of 10.01 a week ago, raising expectations that he could become the first Japanese athlete ever to break the 10-second barrier in the 100m.But it was not his day and he clocked a disappointing 10.40. “I admit that I have an intention to run under 10 seconds somewhere in my mind, but as the race came close, I thought I must try to take a better position rather than a time,” said Kiryu. “I didn’t have any pressure. Since it’s still early in the season, I have a possibility to break the 10-second barrier. I will do my best,” added Kiryu, who dreams of running with Usain Bolt in the same race at the World Championships in Moscow in August. The 10-second barrier has been broken by only about 80 male runners, nearly all of them of West African descent, since American Jim Hines clocked 9.95 at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The Seiko Golden Grand Prix was the third leg of the 15-round IAAF World Challenge series.