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Posted on: Monday, July 20, 2009

Track: Lolo Jones posts year’s best time in 100 hurdles


Associated Press

RETHIMNO, Crete — American hurdler Lolo Jones has won the women’s 100-meter hurdles in a world-leading 12.47 seconds at the Vardinoyiannia track meet.

Jones, who fell in the semifinals at the U.S. trials and failed to qualify for next month’s world championships, controlled the race Monday from the start and ran close to her personal best of 12.43.
Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie of the Bahamas also ran a world-leading time, winning the women’s 200 in 22.33.
In the men’s 200, 19-year-old Alonso Edward of Panama won in 20 seconds flat, shattering his previous best of 20.34. Edward beat Steve Mullings of Jamaica by one-hundredth of a second.