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Ashford Wins 60 Meters in Record 7.15 : Track: Soviets’ Tamara Bykova breaks own high jump record at 6 feet, 5 1/2 inches.

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Associated Press

Evelyn Ashford set a meet record in the 60-meter dash and Tamara Bykova of the Soviet Union broke her own meet record in the high jump at the Chitose-Yomiuri International Track and Field Meet at Osaka Castle Hall today.

Ashford ran the 60 meters in 7.15 seconds, breaking the meet record of 7.19 set by M. Page of Jamaica in 1987. Lilian Allen of Cuba was second in 7.27.

Bykova cleared the bar at 6 feet, 5 1/2 inches, bettering her old mark by 1 1/4 inches. American Jan Wohlslag was second with 6-4 1/4 and Galina Astafei of Romania was third at 6-3 1/4.

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Sergei Bubka of the Soviet Union, the world record-holder in the pole vault, won again, clearing the bar at 19-4 1/4, well short of the world indoor record of 19-9 1/2 he set here last year.

Tim Bright was second at 18-8 1/2, followed by Earl Bell at 18-4 1/2.

Joe DeLoach won the men’s 60 meters in 6.64 seconds, followed by Dennis Mitchell in 6.65 and Ray Stewart of Jamaica in 6.66.

Emilio Valle of Cuba won the 60-meter hurdles in 7.85 seconds.

Oleg Protsenko of the Soviet Union, third in the long jump, won the triple jump with a leap of at 55 feet, 10 1/2 inches, Juan Lopez of Cuba was second at 54-9 and Mike Conley was third with 54-6 1/4.

Mike Powell captured the long jump, leaping 26 feet, 1 inch.

Yoshito Toyoda led a Japanese sweep in the 400 meters, winning in 49.53 seconds.

Dieudonne Kwizera of Burundi took the 800 meters in 1 minute, 49.21 seconds.

In other women’s events, Yelizaveta Chernyshova of the Soviet Union took the 60-meter hurdles in 8.22 seconds; Grace Jackson of Jamaica won the 400 meters in 55.78; Dalia Matuseviciene of the Soviet Union took the 800 meters in 2:05.99; and Japan’s Ayumi Sasaki won the long jump at 19 feet, 4 inches.

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