“I’m feeling good and happy I could run and finish the race without any injuries”.
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The six-time Olympic champion was by no means at full tilt, but clocked 19.89 seconds to win the 200m at the stadium where he won three gold medals in the London Games four years ago.
Bolt told BBC Sport: “I’m getting there, I’m not fully in shape, but over time I’ll be fine”.
It was Bolt’s first race since pulling out of the Jamaican Olympic trials for Rio earlier this month with a hamstring injury.
Harrison missed out on a place in the United States team for the Rio Games and set her sights on breaking the world record after that heartbreak.
Harrison, 23, was already the fastest woman in the world this year, but will not be at next month’s Olympics after finishing only sixth in the U.S. trials.
“Not making the Olympic team I was really just determined to come out here and show what I really could have done in Rio”, she said. “I knew I had it in me”.
The 23-year-old stormed over the barriers to cross the line in 12.20 seconds at the Muller Anniversary Games, beating Bulgarian Yordanka Donkova’s mark by one hundredth of a second.
“I felt it was a joke”, Bolt said.
He added: “That record stood for 28 years, and could stand for another 28 years”.
There was a more muted celebration for Bolt, who nevertheless delighted the crowd by winning then spending his usual remarkable amount of time signing autographs, posing for photos and giving endless media interviews. “I tried to go for the kerb and execute and got some positive answers out of it”. “It’s not as easy as it looks – I don’t just turn up and run a season’s best, there has been a lot of work behind it”.
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The Emsley Carr Mile was won in 3:53.04 by Kenya’s Silas Kiplagat. Americans Natasha Hastings and Francena McCorory clocked 50.49 and 50.73 respectively, as Britain’s multiple Olympic and world medallist Christine Ohuruogu ran a UK-leading time of 51.05 in fifth to further justify her discretionary selection for the Rio Olympics.
