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KARLSRUHE, Germany, CMC:
JAMAICA'S FORMER World Champion-ship silver medallist, Chris Williams, snatched a 200-metre victory at the IAAF Karlsruhe Indoor Permit Meet on Sunday evening.
Williams won a sectional final of the men's 200 metres in 20.96 seconds to become the fifth fastest this season in the event, while his Caribbean colleagues Dominic Demeritte and Michelle Freeman secured runner-up spots in their events and Grenada's Randy Lewis posted a triple national record although he narrowly missed a top-three spot.
Competing in Final 1 of the men's 200 metres, Williams, 200-metre silver at the 2001 World (Outdoor) Championship in Canada, was too fast for Sebastian Ernst (21.24) and defeated the local runner comfortably.
Germany's Tobias Unger was faster in Final 2 and delighted the local fans with a 20.71 victory over Bahamian Demeritte, the reigning World Indoor champion in the event, clocking 21.43.
Britain's Jason Gardener clocked 6.58 seconds - after posting a world leading 6.55 in the heats - to win the men's 60 metres, in which Williams got fourth in 6.68 seconds.
Freeman, the 1997 World (Indoor) Champion, ran a world leading 7.96 seconds to win her 60-metre hurdles heat, but narrowly lost in the final to Poland's Aurelia Trywianska, who clocked a new world seasonal best 7.94 to win.
In a tight finish, Freeman got second in 7.95 seconds, followed by Germany's Kirsten Bolm (7.96) and Jamaican Vonette Dixon (7.97). Haiti's Nadine Faustin was sixth in 8.11 seconds.
In the men's triple jump, Romania's Marian Oprea won with a world-leading 17.38 metres, topping American Walter Davis (17.11) and Brazilian Jadel Gregorio (16.95).
Lewis got fourth in a new Grenada best of 16.84 metres.
