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Lolo Jones leads US sweep



Lolo Jones led an American sweep of the podium in breaking the 19-year record of the 60-metre hurdles at the Russian Winter indoor meet in Moscow on Sunday.

Jones clocked 7.89 seconds to shave .03 seconds off the mark set by Jeva Sokolova of Russia in 1993. She was followed by Ivette Lewis in 8.03 and Danielle Carruthers in 8.05.

Countryman Josh Norman timed 6.63 seconds to win the men's 60, 0.01 ahead of world indoor champion Dwain Chambers of Britain and 0.02 in front of Rytis Sakalauskas of Lithuania.

In the men's long jump, defending champion Aleksandr Menkov of Russia won with a season-best leap of 8.04 metres.

In the men's 600, Adam Kszczot of Poland won in 1:15.26 to beat the old mark by 0.33 seconds set last year by Jackson Kivuva of Kenya.



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