World record holder Liu Xiang won the 110m hurdles in 13.23
seconds at the Prefontaine Classic grand prix meeting Sunday.
Xavier Carter powered past fellow American Wallace Spearmon to
win a star-studded 200 metres, Reuters reported.
Carter, who beat a field that included 100m world record holder
Asafa Powell and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner, clocked
20.23 seconds into a solid headwind on a misty afternoon for the
narrow win.
Spearmon finished second in 20.25 with Jamaican Powell third in
20.55. American Wariner was a disappointing sixth in 20.78
Kenyan Daniel Komen ran the fastest mile on American soil,
clocking 3:48.28.
Craig Mottram won the infrequently run two-mile race in an
Australian record 8:03.50. The time was the sixth fastest ever ran
in the event.
Three other 2007 world-leading performances were set in the
meeting at the site of the 2008 US Olympic trials.
Mozambique's Maria Mutola won the meet's women's 800m for the
15th consecutive time, running 1:58.33, Ethiopian Gelete Burka
clocked 4:00.48 in the women's 1,500m and Jamaican Melaine Walker
won the women's 400m hurdles in 54.14 seconds.
Olympic bronze medallist Paul Koech dominated the 3,000m
steeplechase, winning in 8:08.08, and upcoming American Nick
Symmonds outran Russian Olympic gold medallist Yuriy Borzakovskiy
to win the men's 800m in 1:44.54.
(Source: Shanghai Daily June 11, 2007)