The Jamaican sprint star clocked a season's best of 19.78 seconds, easing up a full 40 metres from the line, to advance along with Canadian Andre De Grasse as the second automatic qualifier.

Bolt won a third successive 100m title on Sunday to set up his bid to repeat his haul of three gold medals in the 100, 200 and 4x100m relay at both the Beijing and London Olympics in 2008 and 2012 respectively.