02/15/2010 - 16:25
T2 Takes Leipzig Title in a Flash
by Devon Jeffreys

A stellar beginning to the 2010 season got a little bit better for Terrence Trammell on Saturday in Leipzig, Germany.

At the Erdgas Athletics Meeting, Terrence posted a world-leading time of 7.43 to win the 60m hurdles for the third time already this season. He'd previously won in Boston and New York. T2 told the IAAF that while he was thrilled to win, he still sees plenty of room for improvement in his races:

"I had felt that I was ready to run fast, because my training had gone very well," said Trammell, who had jetted over from the States just for this meeting. "This was still not a perfect race, because I made quite a mistake at the fourth hurdle. So I will now go home and work on this and then will hopefully be able to run even faster. I am here only for two days, but it was worth the effort. I am happy with my result."

Despite only arriving in Germany the day prior, Terrence was burning right out of the gate. In the preliminaries, he managed the only sub 7.6 time of all the competitors with a 7.53 mark. He carried that momentum into the final and won easily.

His closest pursuer in the final, Petr Svoboda of the Czech Republic, took second with a time of 7.54, more than a tenth of a second behind Terrence and a hundreth of a second slower than T2's prelim time.

Terrence's 7.43 bested the previous world-leading mark of Cuba's Dayron Robles (7.48) by five-hundredths of a second. Terrence had held the mark with a 7.49 at the Millrose Games to open the season, but Robles grabbed it at Stuttgart last week. That lasted a mere seven days before T2 took it back.

TT now returns to the States and will use the next two weeks to prepare for the U.S. Championships on February 27 and 28 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

RELATED STORIES
Trammell sets world-leading mark in Leipzig (Athletics Weekly, February 14, 2010)
http://www.athletics-weekly.com/article.php?id=1155
World leads for Trammell and Mohr in Leipzig (IAAF.org, February 14, 2010)
http://www.iaaf.org/WIC10/news/kind=100/newsid=55552.html

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