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Leonard Myles-Mills wins at Globen Galan

Thu, 15 Feb 2001 Source: AP

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Ghana\'s Leonard Myles-Mills won the 60 meters in 6.63, and Anzhela Kravchenko of Ukraine won the women\'s race in 7.28.

Austria\'s Stephanie Graf won the women\'s 800 meters in the Globen Galan indoor meet Thursday, beating Olympic champion Maria Mutola of Mozambique.

Graf finished in 1 minute, 57.67 seconds. Mutola placed second at 1:58.05 in her season debut. Helena Fuchsova of the Czech Republic was third, followed by Ester Goossens of the Netherlands.

All four were below the season best of 2:00.43 by Russia\'s Olga Kuznetsova earlier this month.

Violeta Szekely of Romania beat Carla Sacramento of Portugal in the women\'s 1,500, with a world\'s season best of 4:03.61.

In the men\'s mile, Kenya\'s Olympic 1,500-meter champion Noah Ngeny finished second behind Portugal\'s Rui Silva. Silva passed Ngeny in the final lap, winning in a season\'s best of 3:52.18.

Crowd favorite Kajsa Bergqvist of Sweden, Olympic bronze medalist and ranked No. 1 in the world, won the women\'s high jump at 6 feet, 61/4 inches, another world season best. Ukraine\'s Inga Babakova was second at 6-51/2.

Swedes Staffan Strand and Stefan Holm swept the men\'s high jump, with both clearing a season-best 7-8.

In other events, Olympic champion Jonathan Edwards of Britain won the triple jump in 56-13/4. He was the only one of four participating Olympic champions to win his event.

Source: AP