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Bailey And Perec Continue Winning Ways In Monaco

Compiled From Wire Services

Olympic gold medalists Donovan Bailey and Marie-Jose Perec kept up the domination of their events Saturday, beating other medalists from the Atlanta Games in the Monaco Grand Prix track and field meet.

In addition to Bailey’s win in the men’s 100-meter dash and Perec’s victory in the women’s 400, the other Olympic gold medalists to repeat were: American Allen Johnson in the 110 hurdles; Joseph Keter of Kenya in the 3,000 steeplechase; American Kenny Harrison in the triple jump, and Russia’s Svetlana Masterkova in the 800.

Bailey, the world record-holder from Canada (9.84), won in a relatively slow time of 10.06 seconds, ahead of Atlanta bronze medalist Ato Boldon of Trinidad and Tobago (10.09) and fellow Canadian Bruny Surin (10.13).

The Americans again finished out of the top three. Dennis Mitchell was fourth in 10.13 and Jon Drummond was fifth in 10.15.

Crowd favorite Perec of France - who received a standing ovation from the approximate 20,000 spectators - won the 400, but had to fend off bronze medalist Falilatu Ogunkoya of Nigeria. Perec, the 200 and 400 Olympic champion, was timed in 49.18.

In a 100 runoff between American women, Atlanta bronze medalist Gwen Torrence out-sprinted Olympic gold winner Gail Devers, winning in 10.92. Olympic silver medalist Merlene Ottey didn’t run.

The meet, boasting a budget of $1.6 million, drew a field of about 40 individual medalists from Atlanta.