Track : Coghlan Wins Again, but Kingdom Is Beaten

Eamonn Coghlan won his seventh mile in a row, and Mark McKoy broke his own Canadian record by defeating Olympic gold medalist Roger Kingdom in the men’s 50-yard hurdles at the Toronto Star Indoor Games track meet Friday night.

Coghlan, 32, toyed with the field at the Maple Leaf Gardens and won Friday’s Meet

going away from Steve Scott of the United States and Ray Flynn of Ireland.

Coghlan’s winning time of 3:59.05 was almost 10 seconds off his world best of 3:49.78. He surrendered the lead briefly to Flynn before regaining it about 1 1/2 laps from the finish.

McKoy, currently attending Louisiana State University, was timed in 5.95 seconds--three one-hundredths of a second slower than the meet and world best set by American Renaldo Nehemiah in 1982.

McKoy set the Canadian standard of 6.04 at last year’s meet while running for Scarborough Optimists in Toronto.

Kingdom was second in a slow clocking of 6.05 seconds, with Tonie Campbell of Los Angeles finishing third in 6.11.

For McKoy, it marked a return to the form that set him up as a medal contender for the 110-meter hurdles at the Los Angeles Olympics, where he finished a disappointing fourth.