WASHINGOTN, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Joint world record holders Asafa Powell and Justin Gatlin will run 100 meters races at this month's Prefontaine Classic but not against each other, Powell's agent told Reuters on Wednesday.

    "There will be two sections of the 100 meters," Tom Jordan, the organiser of the May 28 meeting in Eugene, Oregon, was quoted by Reuters as saying.

    "We wanted both Justin Gatlin and Asafa Powell in the Prefontaine Classic and with their big race coming up in Gateshead, England (on June) 11, it was not possible to get them in the same race," Jordan said.

    The two races were hastily arranged on Wednesday after the sport's world governing body, the International Association of Atheltics Federations (IAAF), said a timing error meant Gatlin had only tied Powell's world record of 9.77 seconds.

    Gatlin's time was originally announced as a world record 9.76 seconds after his run in Doha on Friday.

    Gatlin was scheduled to run a 100 meters at the Prefontaine Classic and Powell a 200 but the Jamaican on Wednesday opted to run the 100 and separate races were then arranged.  Enditem