STOCKHOLM, July 25 - Jamaican sprinters Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson powered to victory at a super grand prix meeting on Tuesday but pole vault supremo Yelena Isinbayeva was surprisingly upstaged following a lacklustre showing.

Despite enjoying a near perfect start to win the men's 100 metres in 9.86 seconds in Stockholm, Powell never came close to breaking his own world record time of 9.77 set in Athens in 2005.

He swept past second-placed American Tyson Gay (9.97) while Marcus Brunson finished third (10.09).

"It felt like an easy and comfortable win," said Powell, who shares the world 100 record with American Justin Gatlin.

"I've been running nine-eights all season and that's what I came here to do.

"All I worried about was running against the clock. I didn't mind anyone in the race."

In the women's 200 Simpson equalled this year's best time of 22.00 seconds to beat American Sanya Richards (22.35) into second place. Bahamas's Debbie Ferguson was third (22.59).

Simpson clocked 22.00 in Rome earlier this month.

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"I was actually planning to go under that time but I won so I'm happy," said Simpson, who is also the world's fastest woman in the 100 metres this year. "I beat some good girls tonight."

American Allyson Felix, the event's world champion, finished only fifth (22.71).

Poland's Monika Pyrek caused the biggest upset of the evening when she relegated Isinbayeva to second place in the women's pole vault.

The Russian only managed to clear 4.62 metres, which was well short of her world record clearance of 5.01.

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