Indoor world record-holder Jenn Suhr won and US teen Mary Cain set a world junior record Saturday at the Boston Grand Prix, where US miler Galen Rupp suffered an injury.
The indoor athletics meet also saw a world record in the seldom-contested indoor 4x800-meter relay, with the American foursome of Richard Jones, David Torrence, Duane Solomon and Erik Sowinski breaking a mark set at the same event in 2000.
Suhr, who set a world record of 5.01m at last year`s US indoor meet, won by clearing 4.70 but promised the best was yet to come, potentially at next month`s world indoors in Sopot, Poland.
"I dont have those `meet legs` and the timing under me, but we`ve got a lot of the season left," Suhr said.
Cain, a 17-year-old from New York, won the 1,000 in 2:35.80, missing her target of the US record 2:34.19 set by Jen Toomey in 2004.
"I felt really good," Cain said. "Of course, I was hoping for the American record, but I felt so good. I kind of felt that last 150, I can do more."
Cain became the youngest American to compete at a world athletics championships after running last year in Moscow.
Rupp, who set American records in the 5,000 and two-mile events last month, dropped out of the mile with a pain in his left foot with two laps remaining, dimming his world hopes with the US indoor meet, a world qualifier that comes at the end of the month.
The US All-Stars -- Jones, Torrence, Solomon and Sowinski -- won the 4x800 relay in 7:13.94, breaking the old mark of 7:13.94 set in 2000 by Joey Woody, Karl Paranya, Rich Kenah and David Krummenacker.
"I just wanted to get out there and get a good position," leadoff man Jones said.
Torrence said: "All I thought was get the baton to the front. I knew what the job was."
Solomon was not planning to run at the meet but changed his mind when training partner Jones took a spot.
"We put this team together and we got a world record out of it," Solomon said.
Marvin Bracey won the men`s 60m in 6.53 seconds while fellow American Tianna Bartoletta won the women`s 60 in 7.17.
Ethiopia`s Hagos Gebrhiwet won the men`s 3,000 in 7:34.13, while New Zealand`s Nick Willis won the mile in 3:57.41.
Kenya`s Sally Kipyego won the women`s two-mile in 9:21.04, helped when US runner-up Jenny Simpson pulled up at the finish line while leading with one lap remaining.
"I`ll be living this one down for a while," Simpson said.
AFP
First Published: Sunday, February 9, 2014, 06:32
