Bernard Lagat won the Wanamaker Mile for the eighth time and broke Irish great Eamonn Coghlan's Millrose Games record Friday. Lagat clocked 3 minutes, 56.34 seconds at Madison Square Garden in the 103rd edition of the meet. The American beat reigning Olympic champ Asbel Kiprop of Kenya by less than 2 seconds. The Kenyan-born Lagat has won five Olympic and world championship medals in the 1,500 meters and two more in the 5,000. After a victory lap before a cheering Garden crowd of 11,510, Lagat found Coghlin on the side of the track and gave him a warm embrace. “He told me: ‘If there was somebody I would wish to break my record it would be you. You are a true gentleman,'” Lagat said. “Those words really mean a lot to me and I really respect that.” Hannah England of Britain won the women's mile, holding off late-charging American Sara Hall by two-hundredths of a second with a winning time of 4:31.48. American Lisa Barber returned to the track for the first time in 11 months and showed she's fully healed from a serious Achilles' tendon injury, beating a strong field in the 60 meters. Barber, the 2006 world indoor champion, edged two-time Olympic 200-meter gold medalist Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica. Barber and Campbell-Brown both posted times of 7.24 seconds. Terrence Trammell won the men's 60 hurdles, and Priscilla Lopes-Schliep of Canada won the women's race. Christian Cantwell won the shot put with a throw of 21.95 meters. American Ivory Williams won the men's 60 in 6.59 seconds. Ennis dazzles in hurdles Britain's Jessica Ennis started 2010 with a bang by beating United States hurdles world champion Lolo Jones in a 60-meter indoor race on Saturday. The heptathlon world champion clocked a national record of 7.95 seconds to edge Jones by two hundredths of a second, and then leaped a personal-best 1.94 meters in the high jump to help Britain (63) to a three-point win over the US (60) in the team event. Germany finished third on 51, nine points behind the US. South Africa's men's 800m champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, slumped to a surprise defeat to Germany's Robin Schembera. The German produced a strong finish to cross the line first in 1min 48.55sec, with Mulaudzi a distant second in 1:49.45. But Carmelita Jeter of the US made no mistake as she stormed to victory in the 60m in 7.19sec. Shawn Crawford, the 2004 Olympic champion over 200m, was overhauled over the distance indoors by Britain's Leon Baptiste, who won in a pedestrian 21.34sec as the American trailed in fourth.
