By ACN — last modified May 30, 2011 01:52 PM. Cuban 2008 Olympic champion and world record holder Dayron Robles won the men's sprint hurdles event of the 29th FBK Games in Hengelo, the Netherlands, on Sunday, registering 13.07 seconds.Cuban Dayron Robles Equals Season's Best Mark in Holland. With this result, Robles not only equalled the season's best mark "set by Chinese Liu Xiang almost two weeks ago during the second stop of the IAAF 2011 Diamond League in Shanghai” but he also proved to be in excellent shape following a modest victory at the Grand Prix of Guadeloupe earlier this month, when he clocked 13.35.">By ACN — last modified May 30, 2011 01:52 PM. Cuban 2008 Olympic champion and world record holder Dayron Robles won the men's sprint hurdles event of the 29th FBK Games in Hengelo, the Netherlands, on Sunday, registering 13.07 seconds.Cuban Dayron Robles Equals Season's Best Mark in Holland. With this result, Robles not only equalled the season's best mark "set by Chinese Liu Xiang almost two weeks ago during the second stop of the IAAF 2011 Diamond League in Shanghai” but he also proved to be in excellent shape following a modest victory at the Grand Prix of Guadeloupe earlier this month, when he clocked 13.35.">

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Cuban Dayron Robles Equals Season's Best Mark in Holland

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  • 05 / 30 / 2011

By ACN — last modified May 30, 2011 01:52 PM. Cuban 2008 Olympic champion and world record holder Dayron Robles won the men's sprint hurdles event of the 29th FBK Games in Hengelo, the Netherlands, on Sunday, registering 13.07 seconds.


Cuban Dayron Robles Equals Season's Best Mark in Holland

With this result, Robles not only equalled the season's best mark "set by Chinese Liu Xiang almost two weeks ago during the second stop of the IAAF 2011 Diamond League in Shanghai” but he also proved to be in excellent shape following a modest victory at the Grand Prix of Guadeloupe earlier this month, when he clocked 13.35.

In Hengelo, Robles was followed by Jamaican Dwight Thomas (13.18) and by American Terrence Trammell (13.31).

On another high note, at the IAAF World Combined Events Challenge in Gotzis, Austria, Cuban Leonel Suarez placed second with 8,440 points, only behind reigning World champion Trey Hardee, from the U.S., who set a world season lead with 8,689 units.

Source: www.escambray.cu/Eng/Sport/dayron110530150

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