Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China ran the 60-meter hurdles in
7.42 seconds Sunday at the Karlsruhe indoor meet to improve his own
Asian record by .001 seconds.
Liu, an Olympic gold medalist who also holds the 110-meter
hurdles world record, held off Dayron Robles by .002 seconds and
avenged his loss to the Cuban last week in Stuttgart.
Marcus Brunson of the United States also ran 6.46 seconds in the
60 meters and Christian Olsson of Sweden made 17.44 meters in the
triple jump.
Olympic long jump champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia continued
her run of form with a jump at 6.68, with a slump from heptathlon
world and Olympic champion Carolina Kluft who finished third in
6.52.
Many athletes are using these indoor events as practice, ahead
of the European indoor championships to be held March 2-4 in
Birmingham, England.
(China Daily February 12, 2007)
