Usain Bolt will revert to the 100 metres in Toronto next month after his blistering display at the Bupa Manchester 150m street sprint.
Bolt was forced to miss his outdoor track debut at the Jamaican Invitational meeting in Kingston at the beginning of May through injury, but will compete at the Festival of Excellence meet on June 11.
The 22-year-old, who showed he had recovered from injuries he sustained in a car crash in April by posting the fastest time ever in Manchester, will compete against a class field in Toronto.
The 2004 Olympic 200m gold medallist Shawn Crawford, who finished runner-up to Bolt over the same distance in last summer's Beijing Games, heads the opposition.
Crawford will be joined by fellow Americans Bernard Williams and Ivory Williams along with Bolt's countrymen Marvin Anderson and Mario Forsythe.
The race is almost certain to see Bolt, the reigning Olympic 100m champion and world record holder, attack the fastest time this year of 9.91sec he achieved at that intermediate point in Manchester.
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