DUBNICA, Slovenia (CMC):

Jamaican World Champion-ship sprint relay gold medallists Steve Mullings and Aleen Bailey registered victories at the Athletics Bridge 2009 international track and field meeting on Sunday evening.

Mullings captured the men's 200 metres in a stadium-record 20.59 seconds and Bailey notched a victory in the women's 100 metres in 11.36 seconds.

In the men's 200 metres, Mullings, who ran the lead-off leg in Berlin last month to help Jamaica add the IAAF World Championship 4x100-metre relay gold to their Beijing Olympics triumph last summer, was an emphatic winner.

He was almost 3/10ths of a second in front of Azerbaijan's Ramil Guliyev (20.88) at the finish.

Narrow miss

Mullings

Mullings narrowly missed the sprint double, finishing second in the 100 metres in 10.13, just a shade behind American Michael Rodgers, who clocked a stadium-record 10.12.

Bailey also had a win and second-place finish in the women's sprints.

She won the 100 metres ahead of the US Virgin Islands' LaVerne Jones-Ferrette (11.43), but was beaten by Jones-Ferrette in the 200, the big USVI sprinter clocking a 22.91 stadium-record to relegate Bailey (23.05) into second spot in the half-lap sprint.

There was a fourth Caribbean win at the meet when Jamaican Isa Phillips registered a stadium record 49.10 seconds to win the men's 400-metre hurdles over the Dominican Republic's former World and Olympic champion Felix Sanchez (49.35).

In one of the highlights of the meet, Olympic champion Dawn Harper, of the USA, captured the 100-metre hurdles in a new stadium-record 12.57, pushing Canada's Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (12.67) into second spot.