100 m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and anchored the TCU 4 × 100 m relay team to first place. 1995 At the NCAA Indoor Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana, Powell finished second in the 55 m, his time 6.19 On 19 May Powell was hand timed at 9.7 s in Houston. It is a disqualified time for record purposes. Powell repeated his success at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, again anchoring the TCU 4 × 100 m relay team to first place, and finished second in the 100 m in his personal best 10.07. He finished second in the 100 m at the Jamaican National Championships with a run of 10.15 seconds. At the Bislett Games in July he ran 10.13 in the heats and then took second behind Linford Christie, running 10.15 seconds into a headwind. Powell received a three-month ban from competition for a doping offense as his test was positive for the stimulant ephedrine. He was disqualified from participating in the 1995 World Championships in Athletics. 1996 In January Powell finished second by 0.01 seconds to Donovan Bailey in the 60 m at the Montreal Grand Prix. He had previously finished second to Bailey in the 50 m one week prior in Hamilton, and second again two days later in the 60 m behind Bruny Surin. Later in January, he won the 60 m at the Boston Indoor Games, in 6.64 s. He won the 60 m at the Atlanta US Indoor Championships in 6.55s in March. Powell won the May Golden Spike meeting in Ostrava. His time of 10.13 is listed as the sixth fastest in the history of the event. 1997 After the 1996 season his form declined and he did not manage to run under 10.20 seconds for the rest of his career. Slowest out of the starting blocks, Powell finished sixth in his second round heat of the 100 m at the Athens World Championships in 10.35 s, and did not progress to the next round. The Jamaican team did not start the first heat of the 4 × 100 m relay, for which Powell was supposed to run first leg. 1998 At the Texas A&M All-Comers on 9 May, Powell recorded the fastest time in the 100 m, 10.16 s. This time made Powell the tenth ranked Commonwealth Athlete for the period January to August. 1999 In the February Stockholm Indoor Meeting Powell