June 12, 2007	Tuesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 26, 1428

EUGENE (Oregon), June 11: Xavier Carter powered past fellow American Wallace Spearmon to win a star-studded 200 metres at the Prefontaine Classic grand prix meeting on Sunday.

Carter, who beat a field that included 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell and Olympic 400-metre 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

Carter clocked the second fastest 200m of all-time last year (19.63 seconds) but finished fourth in a Los Angeles race last month.

“Just because I wasn't winning (earlier this year), doesn't mean I had lost it,” he said.

“But all this running right here really doesn't count until you win the big one,” Carter said of August's world championships.

Powell was glad to be going back to the 100 metres, beginning with Friday's Golden League meeting in Oslo.

“It was a bit too cold so I didn't try to push it,” Powell said.

Olympic champion and world record holder Liu Xiang of China won the 110m hurdles in 13.23 seconds after American record holder Dominique Arnold hit the sixth hurdle and ended seventh.

Liu, whose parents watched him race, said he was not affected by Arnold and was happy with the competition.

Kenyan Daniel K. Komen ran the fastest mile on American soil, clocking 3:48.28, and Craig Mottram won the infrequently contested two-mile race in an Australian record 8:03.50.

The time was the sixth fastest ever ran in the event and a national record by nine seconds, Mottram said.

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 800 metres for the 15th consecutive time, running 1:58.33, Ethiopian Gelete Burka clocked 4:00.48 in the women's 1,500 metres and Jamaican Melaine Walker won the women's 400-metre hurdles in 54.14 seconds.

Olympic bronze medallist Paul Koech dominated the 3,000-metre steeplechase, winning in 8:08.08, and upcoming American Nick Symmonds outran Russian Olympic gold medallist Yuriy Borzakovskiy to win the men's 800 metres in 1:44.54.

Leading results:

MEN’S:

100 metres: 1. Darrel Brown (Trinidad and Tobago) 10.42 seconds; 2. Leroy Dixon (US) 10.49; 3. Mark Jelks (US) 10.49.

200 metres: 1. Xavier Carter (US) 20.23 seconds; 2. Wallace Spearmon (US) 20.25; 3. Asafa Powell (Jamaica) 20.55.

400 metres: 1. Gary Kikaya (Democratic Republic of the Congo) 44.93 seconds; 2. LaShawn Merritt (US) 45.17; 3. Angelo Taylor (US) 45.23.

800 metres: 1. Nick Symmonds (US) one minute 44.54 seconds; 2. Yuriy Borzakovskiy (Russia) 1:44.71; 3. Khadevis Robinson (US) 1:44.99.

Mile: 1. Daniel Kipchirchir Komen (Kenya) three minutes 48.28 seconds; 2. Bernard Lagat (US) 3:50.56; 3. Alex Kipchirchir (Kenya) 3:52.10.

Two miles: 1. Craig Mottram (Australia) eight minutes 03.50 seconds; 2. Tariku Bekele (Ethiopia) 8:04.83; 3. Matt Tegenkamp (US) 8:07.07.

110-metre hurdles: 1. Liu Xiang (China) 13.23 seconds; 2. Anwar Moore (US) 13.24; 3. Ryan Wilson (US) 13.32.

3000-metre steeplechase: 1. Paul Kipsiele Koech (Kenya) eight minutes 08.08 seconds; 2. Joshua McAdams (US) 8:21.36; 3. Steve Slattery (US) 8:22.25.

High jump: 1. Tora Harris (US) 2.30 metres; 2. Jesse Williams (US) 2.30; 3. Germaine Mason (Britain) 2.30.

Long jump: 1. Irving Saladino (Panama) 8.49 metres; 2. Dwight Phillips (US) 8.35; 3. Brian Johnson (US) 8.11.

Pole vault: 1. Giovanni Lanaro (Mexico) 5.80 metres; 2. Russ Buller (US) 5.60; 3. Jeff Hartwig (US) 5.45.

Shot put: 1. Christian Cantwell (US) 21.83 metres; 2. Reese Hoffa (US) 21.65; 3. Daniel Taylor (US) 20.95.

WOMEN’S:

100 metres: 1. Torri Edwards (US) 11.10 seconds; 2. Muna Lee (US) 11.21; 3. Allyson Felix (US) 11.27.

400 metres: 1. Sanya Richards (US) 50.74 seconds; 2. Mary Wineberg (US) 50.95; 3. Monique Henderson (US) 51.43.

800 metres: 1. Maria Mutola (Mozambique) one minute 58.33 seconds; 2. Kenia Sinclair (Jamaica) 1:58.61; 3. Alice Schmidt (US) 1:58.75.

1500 metres: 1. Gelete Burka (Ethiopia) four minutes 00.48 seconds; 2. Yuliya Chizhenko (Russia) 4:02.98; 3. Shalane Flanagan (US) 4:05.86.

100-metre hurdles: 1. Michelle Perry (US) 12.51 seconds; 2. Virginia Powell (US) 12.58; 3. Lolo Jones (US) 12.80.

400-metre hurdles: 1. Melanie Walker (Jamaica) 54.14 seconds; 2. Sheena Johnson (US) 54.44; 3. Tiffany Ross-Williams (US) 54.95.

Triple jump: 1. Anastasiya Zhuravleva (Uzbekistan) 13.64 metres; 2. Sheena Gordon (US) 13.61; 3. Tabia Charles (Canada) 13.32.

Javelin throw: 1. Barbora Spotakova (Czech Republic) 65.20 metres; 2. Kim Kreiner (US) 58.82; 3. Dana Pounds (US) 58.61.—Reuters