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Hemmings in front

Hemmings

PARIS, CANA-Reuters -

JAMAICA'S Olympic champion Deon Hemmings cantered to an easy win in the women's 400 metres hurdles at the Paris Golden League meet last night.

After clocking 54.56 she said: "I wanted to run around 53... but I need more competition to lower my times."

South African Llewellyn Herbert, silver medal winner at the Athens world championships in 1997, won the men's 400 metres hurdles in the second best time of the year, 48.41.

In the women's 100 metres, Ukraine's 1997 world championship runner-up Zhanna Pintusevich won in 11.09 from the Bahamas' trio of Sevatheda Fynes (11.17), Chandra Sturrup (11.18) and Debbie Ferguson (11.21).

Another Bahamian Eldece Clarke-Lewis was sixth in 11.24 seconds as French Olympic hope Christine Arron finished a disappointing seventh.

"I was never really in the race after a bad start," said Arron, who came out of the blocks last and clocked 11.26.

France's popular former world champion Stephane Diagana was cheered home by a Stade de France crowd of around 40,000 in a creditable third place in his first race of the season.

Ireland's European champion Sonia O'Sullivan was third in the women's 3,000 metres, another non-Golden League event won by Lidia Chojecka of Poland in eight minutes 33.35 seconds.

Trinidadian Ato Boldon was beaten into third place by American Brian Lewis who won his second 100 metres inside nine days.

Lewis, who beat world champion Maurice Greene in the Helsinki Grand Prix on June 15, clocked 10.10 seconds as he beat Canadian Bruny Surin and Boldon, second and third respectively, in the high profile event of the opening Golden League meeting of the season.

"I'm very happy and now I can look forward to better things coming up in July,"

Lewis said after his best performance of the season. Surin, world silver medallist last year, and Boldon, world 200 metres champion in 1997, were expected to battle out first place as chief pretenders to Greene's crown as the world's top sprinter.

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