World record holder Liu Xiang won the 110m hurdles in 13.23 seconds at the Prefontaine Classic grand prix meeting Sunday.

Xavier Carter powered past fellow American Wallace Spearmon to win a star-studded 200 metres, Reuters reported.

Carter, who beat a field that included 100m world record holder Asafa Powell and Olympic 400m champion Jeremy Wariner, clocked 20.23 seconds into a solid headwind on a misty afternoon for the narrow win.

Spearmon finished second in 20.25 with Jamaican Powell third in 20.55. American Wariner was a disappointing sixth in 20.78

Kenyan Daniel Komen ran the fastest mile on American soil, clocking 3:48.28.

Craig Mottram won the infrequently run two-mile race in an Australian record 8:03.50. The time was the sixth fastest ever ran in the event.

Three other 2007 world-leading performances were set in the meeting at the site of the 2008 US Olympic trials.

Mozambique's Maria Mutola won the meet's women's 800m for the 15th consecutive time, running 1:58.33, Ethiopian Gelete Burka clocked 4:00.48 in the women's 1,500m and Jamaican Melaine Walker won the women's 400m hurdles in 54.14 seconds.

Olympic bronze medallist Paul Koech dominated the 3,000m steeplechase, winning in 8:08.08, and upcoming American Nick Symmonds outran Russian Olympic gold medallist Yuriy Borzakovskiy to win the men's 800m in 1:44.54.

(Source: Shanghai Daily June 11, 2007)