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Powell sets 100m new world mark

AFP, Athens
Jamaica's Asafa Powell broke the 100 metres world record here on Tuesday running 9.77 seconds.
The 22-year-old's mark eclipses the old time of 9.78sec set by Tim Montgomery in Paris in September 2002.
Powell, who failed to live up to his reputation in the Olympics last year finishing fifth in the final, blew away from the blocks and was never threatened as he finished metres ahead of his closest rival.
Ironically, the same meeting
produced a world record in the same event in June 16, 1999 when
Maurice Greene set the mark with a time of 9.79.
Powell - who broke the record in front of a sparse crowd at the cavernous Olympic stadium - had set his sights on the world mark after a world season best of 9.84sec last month.
"I am very happy that in my second appearance here in Greece I achieved this performance. It is amazing that after Greene, I also achieved a world record in this stadium," he said.
He said he knew he could break the record.
"If you ask what I can do more this year, you will just have to wait until the end of this season to see," Powell added.
Second in the race was Ghana's Aziz Zakari in 9.99 with Jamaica's Michael Frater placing third with a 10.03 clocking, both personal bests.
In the men's 110 metres hurdles, American Arend Watkins despite a slow start and hitting some of the hurdles, came through to win with a season best clocking of 13.23 seconds, beating his closest opponent Ukraine's Sergey Demidyuk by a stride.
"I am very satisfied that I won in a very fast race. Last night I was so anxious I couldn't sleep," Watkins said.
Athens Olympics silver medal winner Hasna Benhassi of Morocco won the 800 metres women's competition as she sprinted at the end to win the event in 1 minute, 59.60 seconds edging out Greece's Maria Papadopoulou who set a national record with a 1:59.79 clocking.
"It was a very good rehearsal for the World Championships in Helsinki. It was an easy race for me as it turned out. Everything went well," Benhassi said after the race.
In the women's 400 metres hurdles Australian Jana Pittman easily won the race with a season's best of 53.44 seconds with Poland's Anna Jesien a distance second at 54.27.
"It was a very good training for the World Championships in Helsinki. I am very satisfied that I
won this race, I am in very good shape," Pittman said.
In the men's 400 metres hurdles Louis van Zyl of South Africa with a great sprint at the end took the event
in 48.16 seconds beating out Greece's Pericles Iakovakis who was second in 48.24.
Jamaica's Sherone Simpson edged out Zhanna Block of Ukraine in the women's 100 metres on the line to win the race in 11:16 seconds.
Bulgaria's star 100m runner Ivet Lalova was unable to take part after suffering a knee injury during the warm-up and was taken to hospital.
The grand prix was the first major athletics competition at the Athens Olympic Stadium since the Games held there last summer.