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| | Thursday, 31 October, 2002, 13:01 GMT IAAF ratifies 100m world record  Montgomery sliced 0.01 seconds off the old mark The USA's Tim Montgomery has had his 100-metre world record officially ratified by the IAAF. The sport's governing body said it had sanctioned the record of 9.78 seconds set by the American sprinter in Paris on 14 September. Montgomery took 0.01 seconds off the three-year-old mark previously held by Maurice Greene. The IAAF also ratified Alesya Turova's 3,000-metre steeplechase record of 9:16.51. She set her world mark on 27 July in Gdansk, Poland. | | Top Athletics stories now:  Links to more Athletics stories are at the foot of the page. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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