Usain Bolt shook off a "horrible start" to win the 100m at the Racers Grand Prix athletics meeting in Kingston.
Bolt stumbled out of the blocks but ran 9.88 seconds to clock the second-fastest time in the world this year as he led home three fellow Jamaicans under 10 seconds in a race run in a wind of one meter per second.
"It wasn't a perfect race, but the good thing was that I won and I came out injury free," said Bolt.
Nickel Ashmeade and Yohan Blake were both timed in 9.94sec, with Asafa Powell finishing in 9.98.
The race was only the fourth time that Bolt, former world record holder Powell and 2011 world champion Yohan Blake have clashed in Kingston and more than 30,000 fans turned out for the warm up for Jamaica's Olympic trials later this month.
Powell had hoped for better, running fourth despite what he described as a calf cramp.
Running before his home crowd for the first time in about two years, Bolt said: "It's good to be back, it has been a while since I ran here."
"I was not completely happy with execution as the start was horrible and did not set up the race, but I won and that is good."
France's Jimmy Vicaut owns the fastest time in the world in 2016, 9.86sec at a meeting in Montreuil on June 7.
World and Olympic champion Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce won the women's 100m in a subdued 11.09sec, coming back from a toe injury that has hampered her training.
American Barbara Pierre was second in 11.11 and Trinidad and Tobago's Kelly-Ann Baptiste took third in 11.15 seconds.
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