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News05 Mar 1999


Women 60m hurdles heats

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Women 60m hurdles

Heat 1
There was some controversy in the first heat of the women’s 60m hurdles when four athletes failed to respond to the recall gun and ran right through to the finish line. There was then a 10-minute pause before the official announcement that the race would be re-run – and no false start charged to any athlete. US champion Melissa Morisson – winner of the first "race" and one of the favourites for the title – then promptly false started. At the third time of asking, Morisson got a decent start, marginally slower than Glory Alozie, last season’s world number 1 for 100m hurdles, but edged ahead by the finish. -7.95 to 7.98. The first two in each heat qualify automatically.

Heat 2
Olympic 100m hurdles silver medallist Brigita Bukovec of Slovenia made hard work of her first appearance on the Maebashi track. She won but clocked the same time as Irina Korotya of Russian. There was just 2 hundredths of a second between Bukovec, with 8.04, and fourth-placed Nicole Ramalalanirina – the Madagascan who recently took up French citizenship.

Heat 3
Kazakstan’s Olga Shishgina – a silver medallist at 100m hurdles at the 1995 World Champs – proved the classiest act of this final heat, cruising to 7.89, the fastest time of the morning. Canada’s Keturah clocked a national record of 7.90 in second place.

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