Morocco’s Salah Hissou broke the world 10,000 meters record, Russia’s Svetlana Masterkova set a women’s 1,000 mark, and 110-meter hurdles champion Allen Johnson came within one-hundredth of a second of another record Friday at the Van Damme Memorial track meet.
Hissou clocked 26 minutes 38.08 seconds to shave 5.45 seconds off the 10,000 record set by Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie in June 1995. He finished well ahead of Kenya’s Paul Tergat, 12.33 seconds behind.
Masterkova, the Olympic 800 and 1,500 meters gold medalist, who also set the 1,500 world mark in Zurich nine days ago, clocked 2:28.98 in the seldom-run 1,000 meters. Maria Mutola of Mozambique, who owned the previous mark of 2:29.34, was second.
Johnson ran 12.92 seconds in rainy conditions, powering past record-holder Colin Jackson of Britain, who ran 13.24. Cuba’s Emilio Valle was third in 13.33.
Johnson tied his own Olympic trials time and the U.S. record he shares with Roger Kingdom.
