Track Roundup : ‘Sluggish’ Foster Wins 60-Yard Hurdles

Greg Foster, running without Renaldo Nehemiah pushing him, won the men’s 60-yard hurdles by coming from behind to edge Mark McKoy Saturday night in the Morning News Indoor Games at Dallas.

“I felt terrible, everything was wrong,” Foster complained. “I just felt sluggish. It wasn’t because Nehemiah didn’t come to the meet.”

Nehemiah, making a track comeback after playing for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, has a bone spur in his left heel that forced him to withdraw.

Foster was timed in 6.95 seconds to McKoy’s 7.02.

In other action, Olympic champion Carl Lewis rebounded from a loss in the Millrose Games by winning the 60-yard dash.

Lewis, winner of four gold medals in the 1984 Olympics, outlasted world record-holder Lee McRae to win in 6.12 seconds. McRae and Mark Witherspoon were clocked in 6.13.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, the world record-holder in the heptathlon, easily won the 60-yard hurdles in a time of 7.51, beating second-place Yolanda Johnson and Stephanie Hightower, holder of the world-best time for the distance.

Joyner-Kersee finished second in the long jump with a leap of 21 feet 11 inches. Carol Lewis, Carl’s sister, won the event at 22-0.

Eamonn Coghlan of Ireland and holder of the world-best indoor time of 3:49.78, won his specialty by eight yards. Coghlan charged from sixth place to post a winning time of 3:56.59 in beating Paul Donovan, who was clocked in 3:57.37.

At Bloomington, Ind., Purdue sprinter Rod Woodson qualified for the NCAA championships by winning two events at the 14th Indiana Invitational track meet.

Woodson, an All-American defensive back for the Boilermaker football team, won the 60-yard dash and 60-yard hurdles.

The senior finished the hurdles in 7.15 seconds. Lamonte Frazier of Indiana was second. Woodson ran the dash in 6.22 seconds, edging former Indiana star Alvin Robinson.