Mutola was an easy winner Photo's from Zurich

The Olympic and world champion from Mozambique put in a burst of speed coming into the home straight to record her fifth win out of five in the Golden League meetings.

Victory for Mutola in the final Golden League meeting in three weeks time in Brussels would give her the massive jackpot.

Mutola clocked a time of one minute 59.93 seconds, to finish ahead of Austria's Stephanie Graf and Claudia Gesell of Germany.

Commonwealth champion Kelly Holmes finished well down the field in the 1500m.

Holmes was ninth, well behind Turkey's Sureyya Ayhan, the European champion, who put in a storming run to clock the fastest time over the distance for six years.

Ayhan won in 3:55.60 and was almost five seconds clear of her rivals.

But there was better news for Britain's other representative in the race Hayley Tullett, who set a new personal best of 4:01.18 in fourth.

Szabo took the 3000m

Romania's Gabriela Szabo also managed a new season's best in the 3,000 metres with a powerful display of front running.

Szabo clocked 8:33.95, reducing her own previous season's best time of 8:34.09 while Ireland's Sonia O'Sullivan looked in excellent shape, finishing second in 8:37.55.

Nothing could separate American duo Justin Gatlin and John Capel in the men's 100m.

The pair were tied for first in a time of 9.97 seconds, ahead of Kim Collins in third while Briton Mark Lewis-Francis was in eighth.

Mexico's Ana Guevara, in her first race in Europe, took the 400m in 49.11 while Chryste Gaines of the USA edged out Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas in the 100m.

American Sandra Glover won the women's 400m hurdles in 54.50 with Briton Natasha Danvers in fifth in 54.95.

Welshman Tim Benjamin ran the fastest time by a British 400 metres runner this year when winning the under-23 international race.

But World Championships qualifying mark of 45.27 came two days too late to be included in the individual 400m in Paris.