Lewis Is Winner in 100, Bubka in the Pole Vault : Track and field: American is timed in 10.15 seconds at Monaco meet. Ukrainian clears 19 feet 4 1/4 inches.

Carl Lewis won the 100 meters and Sergei Bubka, who failed in the Olympics, won the pole vault at the Monte Carlo Grand Prix track meet Tuesday night.

Lewis won in 10.15 seconds.

“The time is no indication of what I will run,” Lewis said. “The track was slow and the starter was quick and messed up everyone’s timing. However, I felt strong in the end. To do it just three days after that emotional relay makes me excited.”

Lewis anchored the U.S. team to a world record of 37.40 seconds in the Olympic 4x100-meter relay and also won his third consecutive long jump gold medal.

He failed to qualify for a spot in the Olympic 100 meters, although he is the world champion and holds the world record of 9.86.

“I had one truly bad race in the 100 and that was in the Olympic trials,” Lewis said. “But you are judged by that race.”

Vitali Savin of the Commonwealth of Independent States was second behind Lewis on Tuesday in 10.21 and Dennis Mitchell, Olympic bronze medalist behind Linford Christie of Great Britain, was third in 10.28.

Christie skipped this meet, and 100 silver medalist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia won the 200 in 20:18. Mike Marsh, the 200 gold medalist, ran in the 100 but came in sixth in 10.35. He has the fastest official 100 this year at 9.93.

In the pole vault, Bubka, of the Ukraine, struggled early, needing three tries to get over 18-8 1/4 and three more to clear 19-4 1/4. He failed in three attempts at a world-record height of 20-1. Maxim Tarasov, the Olympic champion, tied for seventh at 18-4 1/2.

Nourredine Morceli of Algeria, the world 1,500 champion, rebounded from his poor performance in the Olympics to turn in the fastest time of the year in the metric mile, 3:32.75. The Algerian was seventh in the Olympic final, being boxed in after a slow early pace.

Olympic champion and world record-holder Kevin Young returned to competition with an easy victory in the 400 hurdles. Young won the gold medal last week and broke Edwin Moses’ world mark with a time of 46.78 seconds. Young won in 47.60.

Winthrop Graham of Jamaica, the Olympic silver medalist, gave Young a test for the first half of the race and settled for second in 48.22. In the 110 hurdles, Colin Jackson of Great Britain rebounded from an Olympic loss by beating gold medalist Mark McKoy of Canada in 13.12. McKoy took second in 13.23, edging American Tony Dees.

Jackson had the best time in the world, 13.06, but was sixth in the Olympics.

Roger Kingdom of the United States, the two-time gold medalist who failed to make the American team in June, was sixth Tuesday night in 13.43.

Andrea Benvenuti of Italy surprised in the 800 by winning in 1:43.92, overtaking Olympic silver medalist Nixon Kiprotich of Kenya in the stretch.

Heike Drechsler of Germany won the long jump at 24-0 3/4, 7 1/2 inches longer than her gold medal performance at Barcelona.