Athletics: Jackson in fine form
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Your support makes all the difference.COLIN JACKSON last night provided startling evidence of his early season form as he won the 110 metres hurdles at the Golden Gala grand prix meeting in Rome in 13.11sec, the fastest time in the world this year.
Linford Christie made far less impact in his first serious race of the year as he finished seventh, easing up to a time of 21.16sec, in a 200m which saw Frankie Fredericks, the Namibian he beat to the Olympic 100m title, win in 20.17sec.
Christie, who would have preferred to run over 100m, is concentrating less on the longer sprint distance than he did last year. Despite that policy - and a recent back injury, which he insisted last night had not affected him - he envisaged a better performance, even against a field of specialists. Fredericks, who also won silver in the Olympic 200m, accelerated away in the last 50 metres from Michael Johnson, who recorded 20.33.
There were no problems of distance for Jackson on the track where he set a stadium record of 13.09 two years ago.
Jackson's other training partner, Mark McKoy, the Olympic champion, finished two metres adrift of him in 13.20. It is one of a long line of victories which Jackson has recorded over his friend in relatively unimportant events. Whether he can finally convert his general superiority into a gold medal at a major championship this summer remains to be seen.
Sally Gunnell, Britain's other Olympic champion, had a highly satisfactory first outing over the 400m hurdles, recording 54.64sec, which also heads the early world rankings.
Results, Sporting Digest, page 39
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