SALONIKA; World and Olympic champion Usain Bolt brought the curtain down on another record-breaking season here on Sunday when he cruised to victory in the 200m at the World Athletics Final.

But the Jamaican found himself sharing top billing with America's Carmelita Jeter who ran the third fastest women's 100m of all time. Bolt won the 200m in 19.68sec, outside the world record of 19.19sec he set at the World Championships in Berlin last month, but quick enough to see off America's Wallace Spearmon (20.21sec) and Antigua's Brendan Christian (20.65sec).

The 23-year-old was taking part in his 32nd race of the year, including 15 at 100m and nine at 200m. Bolt was to have completed his season by running in Shanghai, on September 20, and Daegu, in South Korea, five days later, but he has already pulled out of both meetings, citing fatigue.

Meanwhile, Jeter's winning time of 10.67sec was the third fastest women's 100m in history. Only compatriots, the late Florence Griffith-Joyner, who set the world record of 10.49sec, and Marion Jones, with 10.65sec, have gone faster. The 29-year-old Jeter's time nudged France's Christine Arron (10.73sec) from the previous third-best slot.

Jeter, the bronze medallist at the world championships in Berlin, edged Jamaican duo Shelly-Ann Fraser (10.89sec) and Kerron Stewart (10.90sec), who were first and second in Germany respectively.

Jeter, now working in California with famed coach John Smith, has enjoyed her best year in the sport. In Berlin, she ran a personal best of 10.83sec. She had clocked 10.72sec in Eugene, Oregon in June, but that time was in a favourable wind.

In other events, New Zealand's Olympic and world champion shot putter Valerie Vili and world high jump queen Blanka Vlasic of Croatia were also winners. Vili won with a throw of 21.07m, the best mark since 2005.

Vlasic took the women's high jump but still was unable to break Stefka Kostadinova's 22-year-old world record of 2.09m.

"I'm not that far away. One day I'll beat it," said Vlasic after her 2.04m winning jump, the 82nd time she has broken the 2.00m barrier.

In the men's 5,000m, where world champion Kenenisa Bekele was missing, Ethiopian compatriot Imane Merga took victory ahead of Kenya's Micah Kogo and Edwin Soi.