China

Liu breaks Asian record at Karlsruhe

(AP)
Updated: 2007-02-12 08:39

Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China ran 7.42 seconds Sunday in the 60-meter hurdles at the Karlsruhe indoor meet to lower his own Asian record by .001 seconds in Karlsruhe, Germany Feb 11, 2007[sina.com]

Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China crosses the final lines to win the 60-meter hurdles with 7.42 seconds Sunday at the Germany Karlsruhe indoor Feb 11, 2007. Liu met to lower his own Asian record by .001 seconds [sina.com]

Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China celebrates after he ran 7.42 seconds Sunday in the 60-meter hurdles at the Karlsruhe indoor meet to lower his own Asian record by .001 seconds in Karlsruhe, Germany Feb 11, 2007.[sina.com]

Olympic champion Liu Xiang of China ran 7.42 seconds Sunday in the 60-meter hurdles at the Karlsruhe indoor meet to lower his own Asian record by .001 seconds.

Liu, who won Olympic gold and holds the world record in the 110 hurdles, held off Dayron Robles by .002 and gained revenge for a loss to the Cuban last week in Stuttgart.

Also, Marcus Brunson of the United States ran 6.46 seconds in the 60 meters and Christian Olsson of Sweden reached 17.44 meters in the triple jump.

Olympic long jump champion Tatyana Lebedeva of Russia won her event with a jump of 6.68, while heptathlon world and Olympic champion Carolina Kluft was third in 6.52.

Many athletes were tuning up for the European indoor championships to be held March 2-4 in Birmingham, England.