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American 400-meter runners Jeremy Wariner and Sanya Richards stayed on pace to win a share of the IAAF's Golden League jackpot on Friday, winning their events at the Memorial Van Damme meet in Brussels.
The world and Olympic men's gold medalist, Wariner kept his Golden League record unblemished with a win in 44.29 seconds, while the #1 world-ranked Richards won the women's 400 in 50.02, exactly one full second ahead of Jamaican Novlene Williams in second place.
Wariner and Richards are now guaranteed to share a $500,000 jackpot with men's 100-meter runner Asafa Powell and women's 5,000m-runner Tirunesh Dibaba. A sixth Golden League win, September 3 in Berlin, would earn them each a share of an additional $500,000 purse.
Other Americans winning their events Friday evening in Belgium included Tyson Gay, who ran a meet record to lead a 1-5 U.S. sweep in the men's 200. Gay won in 19.79 seconds and was followed by Xavier Carter (19.97), Wallace Spearmon (20.02), Kelly Willie (20.29) and Rodney Martin (20.43). World champion Michelle Perry won the women's 100m hurdles (12.55).
The meet saw the men's 4x800-meter world record fall, with Kenya running 7:02.43. The United States was second in 7:02.82, also under the previous world mark of 7:03.89, run by Great Britain in 1982. (U.S. team lineup was not immediately available at press time.) The U.S. crushed the American record of 7:06.5, set by the Santa Monica Track Club in 1986.
For complete results from Brussels, visit IAAF.org.
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