Bolt to start 2010 with 400m race

The 23-year-old world record holder usually starts his season over the longer distance to ease himself from training into racing.

Bolt's last run was in winning the 200m in September's IAAF finals in Greece.

He has also confirmed he will compete over 100m in the Diamond League meeting in New York on 12 June.

It will be Bolt's first competition in the United States since he set his first world record at the same meeting in 2008.

However it has still to be revealed whether the race will be his first of his seven Diamond League appearances.