Published>Sun, Mar 14 10 11:47 PM
Cuba's Olympic champion Dayron Robles equalled the third fastest 60 metres hurdles of all time when he clocked 7.34 seconds to pip American Terrence Trammell to victory at the world indoor championships on Sunday.
Trammell was second in 7.36 seconds, to equal the U.S. record, and compatriot David Oliver was third.
China's Liu Xiang, champion two years ago, finished seventh in 7.65 seconds and was hobbling noticeably after the race. He continues to recover from Achilles problems that put him out of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Struggling Russian pole vault world record holder Yelena Isinbayeva finished out of the medals after failing three times at 4.75 metres.
The Olympic champion also faltered at last year's outdoor world championships when she did not clear a height in the final.
Brazil's Fabiana Murer won the competition with 4.80 metres. Russian Svetlana Feofanova took the silver at the same height and world outdoor champion Anna Rogowska was third with 4.70.
LAGAT TRIUMPHS
Kenyan-born American Bernard Lagat won his second 3,000 metres title six years after the first with a stirring last lap.
Lagat, 35, surged past defending champion Tariku Bekele of Ethiopia with slightly more than a lap to go and handily won in seven minutes 37.97 seconds.
Spain's Sergio Sanchez took second in 7:39.55 with Kenyan Sammy Mutahi third.
Bekele, the brother of Ethiopian distance great Kenenisa Bekele, faded to fourth.
"My kids woke up at 7 a.m in the morning to watch their daddy," Lagat said. "So I needed to show them something."
The former double outdoor world champion thrust his right arm into the air in celebration more than 20 metres from the finish and repeated it again before crossing the line in his season's best time.
Jamaican Olympic 200 metres gold medallist Veronica Campbell Brown ran a lifetime best 7.00 seconds to claim the women's 60 metres. LaVerne Jones-Ferrette of the U.S. Virgin Islands was 0.03 behind and American Carmelita Jeter took third.
Belarus's Nadezhda Ostapchuk surprised New Zealand's Olympic and world champion Valerie Vili with a championship record 20.85 metres in the women's shot put. Vili, whose last defeat was to Ostapchuk in 2007, threw a national record 20.49 metres.
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