Athletics: Dashing Jackson returns in style

COLIN JACKSON, who started as favourite in the 110m hurdles in Barcelona before fluffing his lines, had a satisfying revenge against a field which included all the medallists in Spain at the Monaco grand prix last night.

The Welsh athlete led from start to finish, clocking 13.12sec with the Olympic champion, Mark McKoy, of Canada, second in 13.23. Jackson and McKoy, close friends and training partners, then ran a lap of honour together.

Three top American hurdlers finished behind them. The silver medallist, Tony Dees, was third, while the former Olympic champion, Roger Kingdom, was only sixth and Jack Pierce, the bronze medallist, was seventh.

The American hurdler, Kevin Young, gave an encore to his breathtaking Barcelona gold medal performance when he raced to an outstanding victory in the 400m hurdles, racing around the Stade Louis II track to win in 47.60sec from Winthrop Graham, of Jamaica, who clocked 48.22 with Samuel Matete third in 48.38sec.

Carl Lewis aand Sergei Bubka proved on Tuesday that they are still the men to beat even if they did miss out on the Olympic sprint and pole vault titles. Lewis unleashed one of his incomparable late bursts to beat several of the Barcelona finalists over 100m, clocking 10.15sec.

Bubka, who lost his Olympic title in Spain when he failed to get over his opening height of 5.70m, won the pole vault with at 5.90m and just failed in three attempts to lift his world record to 6.12m.

In the women's 400m hurdles, the world championm Tatyana Ledovskaya, of Belarus, fourth in Barcelona, had a thrilling tussle with the silver-medal winner, Sandra Farmer-Patrick, just edging the American by one-twentieth of a second in 53.55.

It was a time which has been beaten this year only by the British runner, Sally Gunnell - who was not competing in Monaco - when she won gold in Barcelona.

Frankie Fredericks, of Namibia, had a rousing win in the men's 200m, coming from fourth out of the bend to win in 20.18. John Regis, Britain's European champion, came second in 20.26.