Dwain Chambers continued his winning streak on European soil in recent weeks when winning the 100m at the Mondo Keien meeting.
Chambers was hoping to run under 10 seconds and possibly approach the Dutch all-comers' record of 9.97 seconds set by Churandy Martina in Hengelo at the beginning of June.
But despite the brand-new surface laid by the sponsors, the bid never materialised and Chambers won in a time of 10.22secs.
The 31-year-old, who scored a sprint double at last weekend's European Team Championships and ran 10.16secs in Nantes, France on Wednesday, beat former Commonwealth champion Kim Collins who clocked 10.42secs.
Jessica Ennis, a genuine heptathlon gold medal prospect at the World Championships in August, also showed top form at a German meeting in Bottrop.
Ennis, who has been rewriting all of her personal bests in recent weeks, continued in the same vein of form when flying to a superb 100m hurdles time of 12.81secs.
The world-class display and victory saw the 23-year-old who missed last summer's Olympic Games with a foot injury decimate her previous best set last month of 12.93secs.
Olympic silver medallist Phillips Idowu defeated his nemesis Nelson Evora at the Grand Prix of Andalucia meeting in Malaga on Saturday night.
Idowu lost the gold medeal in Beijing to his Portuguese rival last summer and was narrowly beaten by him at last weekend's European Team Championships.
His winning distance of 17.05m was not spectacular but was far better than that of Evora, who produced a poor leap of 16.49m, just ahead of European siver medallist Nathan Douglas.
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