Chandra Sturrup tops Marion Jones again
by Gary Smith |
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June
1,
2005 - MILAN
(World-Track) -
Sydney
Olympic 4x100m relay gold medallist Chandra Sturrup from the
Bahamas registered win number two in as many match-ups with
Marion Jones, following her latest win over the American in the
100-metres at the Grand Prix Regione Lombardia in Milan, Italy
on Wednesday.
The men's
race saw
Jamaica's
Patrick Jarrett claiming a surprised win over Britain’s Mark
Lewis-Francis, while the in form Dwight Phillips had to settle
for fourth place.
Sturrup, a
former training partner of Jones clocked 11.42 in a (-1.4 m/s)
head-wind to push the triple Olympic gold medallist back into
second place at 11.67. Sturrup was celebrating her second win
over the American in four days after her 11.15 win at the IAAF
Grand Prix in Hengelo, Netherlands on Sunday.
Jarrett
surprised his rivals in the men's race to wrap it up in 10.36.
Britain's Olympic relay gold medallist Lewis-Francis was close
behind at 10.40, while Nigeria's Uchenna Emedolu and Phillips
recorded the same time at 10.41 for third and fourth
respectively.
Cuba's
top sprinter Freddy Mayola still struggling to find his early
season form clocked 10.57 for sixth place.
In a
down-to-par men's 400m hurdles run, Ockert Cilliers of South
African beat fellow countryman Llewellyn Herbert.
None of
the eight runners broke 49-sec, but in the end Cilliers' 49.00
was enough to give him the win. Herbert (49.25) and Jamaicans
Dean Griffiths (49.45) and Ian Weakley (49.49) rounded off the
top four competitors.
In other
excitement in
Milan,
Uganda's
Dorcus Inzikuru broke the world record in the women's
2,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 6:04.46. |