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| | Friday, 6 September, 2002, 20:51 GMT 21:51 UK Jones proves quickest  The winning quartet pose with their spoils Marion Jones, Hicham El Guerrouj, Felix Sanchez and Ana Guevara took top honours at Friday's final Golden League meeting in Berlin. The quartet claimed a share of the 50kg of gold ingots on offer for victories in all seven Grand Prix meetings. Jones started the ball rolling in the 100m, crossing the line in 11.01secs for an easy victory ahead of Jamaican Tayna Lawrence, in 11.12secs, and Debbie Ferguson of the Bahamas in 11.20secs. El Guerrouj quickly followed suit, stretching away from the field to win the 1,500m in 3:30.00, exactly four seconds outside his world record of 3:26.00. Dominant Sanchez took the 400m hurdles ahead of Hadi Soua'an al-Somaily of Saudi Arabia, who clocked 48.31. Joey Woody of the United States was third in 48.77. "I fixed the problem with my stride pattern running into the first hurdle," Sanchez said. "So I felt pretty confident and I was able to fulfill my golden dream." Guevara was even more dominant in the women's 400m, clocking a time of 49.91 with Lorraine Fenton of Jamaica second in 50.50.
Dwain Chambers earned his fifth win of the season over Maurice Greene when he took victory in the 100m. Britain's European champion clocked 10.02secs with a late surge to pip American Coby Miller on the line. Miller ran 10.07secs with Commonwealth champion Kim Collins third in 10.15secs, while Greene could only manage 10.20secs to finish sixth. Hard work Chambers will now run in the Grand Prix final in Paris next week before completing his season at the World Cup in Spain. "That was hard work," he admitted after his Berlin victory. "I am pleased with another victory because I felt myself slowly plummeting after a couple of weeks off. "I have still got another two races but then I can hang up my spikes for another season." With world triple jump record holder Jonathan Edwards absent, Britain's Phillips Idowu finished second behind European champion Christian Olsson of Sweden. Olsson won with a jump of 17.40m, while Idowu's best effort was 17.23m. | |
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