Usain Bolt of Jamaica, center, runs the men's 200 m race ahead of Shawn Crawford of the US, left, and Lashawn Merrit of the US, right, at the Athletissima athletics meeting in the Stade Olympique in Lausanne, Switzerland, Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Photo by AP.

Usain Bolt ran the fourth fastest 200-meter race ever in 19.59 seconds in sinking temperatures and heavy rainfall at the Athletissima meet on Tuesday.

It was one-hundredth of a second slower than what American Tyson Gay ran in May with fair weather and a breeze at his back.

But with the temperature in Lausanne dipping to 15 degrees and the track slowed by a downpour, Bolt showed he was back in top form a year after winning the 100 and 200 in world records at the Beijing Olympics.