Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will compete at the Athletissima 2009 IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Switzerland next month, organisers confirmed yesterday.

Bolt, who captured three gold medals at the Beijing Olympics last summer, will line up in his favourite event, the 200 metres. Last year the towering sprinter flashed to 19.63 seconds in winning the event in a slight head wind, just weeks before sizzling to his world record mark in Beijing.

recovered quickly

Bolt, 22, showed that he recovered quickly from the injuries he suffered in the April 29 accident when he sped to a world best 14.35 seconds in the 150-metre street race in Manchester on May 17.

The organisers have also confirmed that Cuban world 110m hurdles record holder Dayron Robles, Australian pole vaulter Steve Hooker, along with Panama's Olympic and world long jump champion Irving Saladino and former world champion Bernard Lagat, will make appearances