Ethiopia's Bekele (right) led home distance legend Gebrselassie

Bekele ran 26 minutes 53.7 seconds in his first 10,000m, 30 seconds off the world record of 26:22.75 set by Gebrselassie five years ago in Hengelo's FBK Stadium.

Bekele, the world cross country champion, had challenged his Ethiopian compatriot to set a world record. Countryman Sihine Sileshi, was third.

The three men broke from the pack in the first 10 minutes, and 20-year-old Bekele won a final sprint in sweltering temperatures.

"I knew from the beginning Kenenisa was strong," Gebrselassie said.

"Kenenisa is stronger than me. I will try to do more speed work. Paris will come soon and I will have a good race there (at the world championships in August)."

Gebrselassie said the unusually high spring temperature had made it difficult to top his world record.

Olympic 200m silver medallist Darren Campbell managed third place in the 100m in a time of 10.33 seconds.

He said he hoped his performance would be enough to earn a spot at next month's Spar European Super League final where Great Britain's men will be defending their title.

He faces stiff competition, however, with European champion Dwain Chambers, European indoor 60m title holder Jason Gardener and former world junior gold medallist Mark Lewis-Francis in contention.

Susan Scott produced a rock solid run to finish second over 800m behind Morocco's Ait Hammou, who ran a personal best of 2:00.41.

The Scottish record holder, contesting her first grand prix overseas, finished in a respectable 2:01.08 ahead of Monika Gradski.

In the 1,500m, Commonwealth silver medallist Hayley Tullett was fourth in 4:09.75 after Kenya's Margaret Ngotho won a tight finish in a personal best 4:08.91.