BELEM, Brazil (CMC) – Rising Antiguan sprint star Daniel Bailey clocked a superb world-leading 9.99 seconds to win the men’s 100 metres at the 25th Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Bailey’s time displaced American Walter Dix’s 10.00 in Tallahassee last month as the world leading sprint and his effort was one of seven Caribbean wins at the meet that included a double triumph for the in-form US Virgin Islands sprinter LaVerne Jones-Ferrette.

Contesting Race 1 of the Men’s 100 with a head-wind reading of minus 0.3 metres per second, Bailey executed a brilliant run to defeat the American pair of Michael Rodgers and Monzavous Edwards.

A trainer partner of world record holder Usain Bolt in Jamaica, the 22-year-old Bailey edged Rodgers (10.01) at the finish with Edwards a step further back in 10.11 seconds.

Jamaican Marvin Anderson (10.18) and Antiguan Brendan Christian (10.20) were sixth and seventh, respectively.

Jamaican Ainsley Waugh won Race 2 in 10.16 seconds, chased by Trinidad and Tobago’s Emmanuel Callendar (10.16) and Barbadian Andrew Hinds (10.28).

Jones-Ferrette, who won the sprint double at the Ponce Grand Prix in Puerto Rico last weekend, repeated the feat by landing the 100 metres in 11.18 seconds and the 200 in a world-leading 22.49.

She won the 100 over American Rachelle Boone-Smith (11.30) with Jamaicans Sheri-Ann Brooks (11.33) and Aleen Bailey (11.33) fourth and fifth, respectively.

Jones-Ferrette’s impressive run in the half-lap sprint led a Caribbean sweep of the event as she toppled American Carmelita Jeter (22.59) as world leader.

T&T’s Kelly-Ann Baptiste (22.60) was second and Cayman’s Cydonie Mothersill (22.79) third with Jamaica’s Brooks fifth in 23.04.

In the Men’s 200, Jamaican Anderson won Race 1 in 20.15 seconds over Rodgers (20.24) with Christian third in 20.26 and Jamaican Chris Williams sixth in 20.65.

American Edwards (20.17) won Race 2 ahead of Waugh (20.22) and Callendar (20.40).

Jamaicans Isa Phillips and Bobby-Gaye Wilkins posted the other Caribbean wins at the meet.              

Phillips dominated the Men’s 400 hurdles in a world-leading 48.36 seconds, pushing the American LaRon Bennett (49.29) into second spot and Wilkins (50.91) took the women’s 400 metres ahead of Guyanese Aliann Pompey (51.09).

The time by Wilkins is the second fastest in the world so far this year, bettered only by American Allyson Felix (50.00).