Netherlands Track : Moses Wins 400 Hurdles in 48.08; Harris Second

Edwin Moses charged past Danny Harris and won the 400-meter hurdles in 48.08 seconds in the Adriaan Paulen Memorial track and field meet Sunday.

Harris finished second in 48.60, with Kevin Young third in 48.94.

Moses had won 107 straight 400-meter hurdle final races in the past decade before having his streak stopped last month by Harris.

In an international meet in Paris last Thursday, Moses slipped and fell at the second-to-last hurdle, and could not finish the race.

His victory here was his fourth since June 4, when Harris ended Moses’ decade-long winning streak.

Moses, who set a world record of 47.02 in the 400 hurdles in 1983, took the middle of five lanes, with Harris starting 10 meters ahead of him in the outer lane.

The 32-year-old Moses surged forward and overtook Harris less than halfway round the track.

Moses ran a flawless race under dry and almost windless conditions before a crowd of 19,000 in the Fanny Blankers Koen Stadium.

After his fall in Paris, he blamed a wet track, adding that the overhead electric lights reflected in puddles of water on the track and blinded him.

In other action Sunday, Calvin Smith won the 100-meter dash in 10.21.

Smith, the world record-holder at 9.93, replaced Carl Lewis, who skipped the event because of a hamstring injury.

Stanley Floyd finished second in 10.28, beating Brazilian Robson Da Silva, who also clocked 10.28.

Nellie Fiere-Cooman of the Netherlands ran a winning 11.17 in the women’s 100-meter event, with Jennifer Innes second in 11.21 and Pauline Davis of the Bahamas third in 11.32.

Scott Davis won the pole vault, clearing 18 feet, 4 1/2 inches. Frenchman Phillip Collet finished second at 18-0 1/2, and West German Wladyslaw Kozakiewicz was third at 17-8 1/2.