Sport in Short: Athletics

THE Russian sprinter, Irina Privalova, set a women's 60-metre world indoor record of 6.92sec at the Jose Maria Cagigal Memorial Meeting in Madrid yesterday.

INTERNATIONAL INDOOR MEETING (Madrid): Winners only: Men: 60m: 1 B Surin (Can) 6.51sec. 400m: S Matete (Zambia) 47.71. 1,000m: W Tanui (Ken) 2min 20.79sec. 3,000m: I Viciosa (Sp) 8:01.73. 60m hurdles: C Hawkins (US) 7.60. Pole vault: R Gataulin (Uzb) 5.96m. Long jump: I Pedroso (Cuba) 8.12. Women: 60m: I Privalova (Rus) 6.92 (world record). 400m: S Myers (Sp) 54.10. 1,000m: L Rogachova (Rus) 2:39.07. 60m hurdles: L Narozhilenko (Rus) 7.70. Triple jump: I Kravets (Ukr) 14.25. High jump: Y Henry (US) 1.85.

INTERNATIONAL INDOOR MEETING (Osaka, Japan) Winners only: Men: 60m: F Fredericks (Namib) 6.60sec. 400m: H Hayashi (Japan) 49.21. 800m: Lee Jin-il (S Kor) 1:52.03. 60m hurdles: T Dees (US) 7.50. High jump: T Yoshida (Japan) 2.20m. Long jump: J Greene (US) 7.94m. Triple jump: M Conley (US) 16.38. Pole vault: S Bubka (Ukr) 5.60. Women: 60m: M Freeman (Jam) 7.18. 400m: S Farmer-Patrick (US) 54.76. 800m: H Hashimoto (Japan) 2:09.75. 3,000m: 1 Y Mitsumori (Japan) 13:01.72. 60m hurdles: M Freeman (Jam) 7.92. High jump: Y Ota (Japan) 1.85 Long jump: G Chistyakova (Rus) 6.30. Triple jump: Chistyakova 13.90.