ZAGREB, July 5: Cuba's Dayron Robles beat season-leading David Payne for the second time this week in the 110-metre hurdles at the Zagreb Grand Prix on Wednesday. Two days after defeating the American in Athens, Greece, Robles won in 13.35 seconds in pouring rain, which made the track slippery at Mladost Stadium.

Payne won in Ostrava, Czech Republic last week, but bowed to Robles by .21 seconds.

“I feel good, I'm ready” for the Golden League meet in Paris on Friday,” Robles said. “I'm ready to win it.”

Ron Bramlett of the United States was third in 13.59.

World record-holder Tatiana Lysenko won the hammer throw with 76.74 metres, nearly two metres below her best.

“It's the world record in rainy weather,” Lysenko quipped. “I'm happy I won – that's what I came for.”

Lysenko, who increased her world mark to 78.67 metres in May in Sochi, Russia, beat two-time world champion Yipsi Moreno of Cuba, who threw 73.89 metres. The 2000 Olympic champion Kamila Skolimowska of Poland was fourth on 72.91.

In the women's 800, Lucia Klocova, Slovakia upset Svetlana Cherkasova – the winner in Ostrava and Athens – by shading the Russian in two minutes, 1.56 seconds. Cherkasova timed 2:01.80, and Jolanda Ceplak of Slovenia, the indoor world record-holder and 2004 Olympic bronze medalist in 2004, finished third.

Matic Osovnikar of Slovenia ran down Gregory Bolden of the United States to win the men's 100 in 10.19 seconds.

But Americans won the women's 100 (LaShaunte Moore), 200 (Rachelle Boone-Smith) and the men's 400 (Derrick Williams).

The season's leading female high jumper, Blanka Vlasic of Croatia, won her event, and Irving Saladino of Panama won the men's long jump with the year's third best distance, 8.45 metres.

Leading results:

MEN'S:

100 metres: 1. Matic Osovnikar (Slovenia) 10.19 seconds; 2. Gregory Bolden (US) 10.29; 3. Jason Gardener (Britain) 10.34.

200 metres: 1. Tim Abeyie (Britain) 20.67 seconds; 2. Chris Williams (Jamaica) 20.69; 3. Patrick Johnson (Australia) 20.78.

400 metres: 1. Alleyne Francique (Grenada) 46.29 seconds; 2. Tim Benjamin (Britain) 46.57; 3. Elison Hurtauld (US) 46.74.

3000 metres: 1. Micah Kogo (Kenya) seven minutes 48.92 seconds; 2. Benjamin Limo (Kenya) 7:50.04; 3. Moses Masai (Kenya) 7:56.94.

110-metre hurdles: 1. Dayron Robles (Cuba) 13.35 seconds; 2. David Payne (US) 13.56; 3. Ron Bramlett (US) 13.59.

400-metre hurdles: 1. Derrick Williams (US) 49.24 seconds; 2. Adam Kunkel (Canada) 49.73; 3. Rickey Harris (US) 50.26.

Long jump: 1. Irving Saladino (Panama) 8.45 metres; 2. Miguel Pate (US) 7.96; 3. Rogerio Bispo (Brazil) 7.85.

Shot put: 1. Miran Vodovnik (Slovenia) 20.63 metres; 2. Tomasz Majewski (Poland) 20.08; 3. Daniel Taylor (US) 19.90.

Javelin throw: 1. Igor Sukhomlinov (Russia) 79.12 metres; 2. Ilya Korotkov (Russia) 76.27; 3. Scott Russell (Canada) 73.33.

WOMEN’S:

100 metres: 1. LaShauntea Moore (US) 11.19 seconds; 2. Rachelle Smith (US) 11.22; 3. Yevgeniya Polyakova (Russia) 11.33.

200 metres: 1. Rachelle Smith (US) 23.17 seconds; 2. LaShauntea Moore (US) 23.20; 3. Kim Gevaert (Belgium) 23.23.

400 metres: 1. Ilona Usovich (Belarus) 51.73 seconds; 2. Tatyana Veshkurova (Russia) 52.33; 3. Christiana Ekpukhon (Nigeria) 52.62.

800 metres: 1. Lucia Klocova (Slovakia) two minutes 01.56 seconds; 2. Svetlana Cherkasova (Russia) 2:01.80; 3. Jolanda Ceplak (Slovenia) 2:01.97.

3000 metres: 1. Olga Komyagina (Russia) eight minutes 52.03 seconds; 2. Beylanesh Fekadu (Ethiopia) 8:52.04; 3. Gulnara Samitova (Russia) 8:56.14.

100-metre hurdles: 1. Delloreen Ennis-London (Jamaica) 12.91 seconds; 2. Perdita Felicien (Canada) 13.03; 3. Damu Cherry (US) 13.03.

High jump: 1. Blanka Vlasic (Croatia) 1.90 metres; 2. Emma Green (Sweden) 1.90; 3. Marina Aitova (Kazakhstan) 1.85.

Hammer throw: 1. Tatyana Lysenko (Russia) 76.74 metres; 2. Yipsi Moreno (Cuba) 73.89; 3. Betty Heidler (Germany) 73.25.—Agencies