Robson da Silva of Brazil ran the fastest 200 meters in the world this year to score an emphatic victory over Carl Lewis in the Ivo Van Damme Grand Prix track and field meet Friday night in Brussels, Belgium.
Da Silva, who took the bronze medal behind Lewis' silver at the Olympics last year, clocked a personal-best time of 19.96 seconds, 8-100ths faster than he has ever run.Lewis, the 1984 Olympic champion and co-holder of the second-fastest time in the event, was fifth in 20.47 seconds. "I'm as surprised as anybody about the way I ran," Lewis said. "I just felt flat all the way."
Roger Kingdom, the Olympic champion and world record-holder, won the 110-meter hurdles in 13.12 seconds.
Butch Reynolds won the 400 meters in 44.98 seconds. Said Aouita, meanwhile, failed in his attempt to become the first man in 35 years to set a 1,500 meters and mile world record in the same race.
Aouita, who broke Henry Rono's 11-year-old world 3,000-meter record at Cologne, West Germany, last Sunday, clocked 3:36.58 at 1,500 meters and 3:50.09 for the mile.
Australian John Landy, in 1954, was the last man to set the two world records in the same race.
Kevin Young, the fastest man over 400-meter hurdles this season, scored his second victory in a week over Olympic champion Andre Phillips. Young ran 48.08 seconds.
Sydney Maree won a superb 5,000 meters from Domingos Castro of Portugal. Maree took the lead with 650 meters to run and held off Castro's challenge to clock 13:13.84. Castro timed 13:14.41.
Mike Powell, the Olympic silver medalist, won the long jump with a last round leap of 27 feet, 10 1/4 inches.
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A Soviet shot putter failed his drug test, costing his country a place in track and field's World Cup at Barcelona, Spain, next month.
The International Amateur Athetic Federation said Alexander Bagach tested positive during the European Cup at Gateshead, England, earlier this month when the Soviet Union finished second to the men's team from Britain. Bagach finished third, and the IAAF confirmed the shot putter took the banned hormone testosterone.
As a result, the Soviets were docked six points, allowing East Germany to move into second place and claim the other World Cup place with Britain.