Chambers won in an impressive time of 6.58sec, putting him ahead of Mark Lewis-Francis and Harry Aikines-Aryeetey at the National Indoor Arena.

The performance from last year's European indoor gold medallist indicated he has benefited from an intensive winter training programme and is in the best shape of his life.

Chambers went one-hundredth of a second quicker in his semi-final, moving him to second place in the world rankings behind American Mark Jelks who ran 6.56 in Dusseldorf last Wednesday.

The 31-year-old Londoner, competing for the first time since placing sixth over 100m at last summer's World Championships in Berlin, had a brilliant start to thank for his victory over the two former world junior 100m champions.

His speed out the blocks opened a healthy gap and the race overall was much closer than the times posted by Lewis-Francis, who ran 6.66, and Aikines-Aryeetey, who did 6.67, suggested.

Lewis-Francis - who ran a speedy 6.59 last weekend - was fourth at the half-distance but then hit his stride pattern and was closing Chambers down rapidly in the race to the line.

The trio will run again at next weekend's Aviva trials in Sheffield, where they will be bidding to clinch their places for next month's World Indoor Championships in Doha.