Leroy Burrell Bumped Off After 12 Wins : Track: The American sprinter, best in the world this year, loses a rough race to Nigeria’s Olapade Adeniken.

Olapade Adeniken of Nigeria snapped Leroy Burrell’s 12-race winning streak, nipping the world’s top-ranked sprinter in the 100 meters at the DAG Galan meet today.

After the two bumped each other three or four times, Adeniken fell across the finish line to win by 2/100 of a second.

The Nigerian clocked a relatively slow 10.10 seconds in beating the American for the first time ever. He fell hard on the track but was not injured.

Adeniken, 21, beat Burrell, but he missed suspended Canadian Ben Johnson’s 3-year-old meet record by 5/100 of a second.

“I got elbowed in the chest a few times when we were running on the line,” said Burrell, who was running in the lane next to Adeniken. “Every time we hit each other I lost ground.”

Burrell said that “it was a dirty race,” but he stressed that “the bumping was not on purpose by either sprinter.”

Adeniken and Burrell first bumped into each other after about 20 meters.

“Every time I got hit I fell back,” Burrell said. “I got discouraged.”

Burrell praised Adeniken after the race.

“He’s been coming on strongly this season,” Burrell said. “He’s probably among the top three, four sprinters.”

Burrell, who was fastest in the world last year with 9.94, just 0.02 off Santa Monica teammate Carl Lewis’ world record, also has the best legal time so far this year in 9.96. He also had wind-aided times of 9.94 and 9.95.

Last month, Burrell beat Lewis in their first meeting of the year, at the Goodwill Games in Seattle.

Burrell came to this meet after training at high altitude in Sestriere, Italy, where he will compete again in the 100 on Wednesday.

Raymond Stewart of Jamaica was third in the men’s 100 in 10.18, followed by Daron Council of the United States in 10.20 and Chidi Imoh of Nigeria in 10.23.

In another early event, Randy Barnes captured the shot put with a heave of 74 feet, 11 1/4 inches.

Hollis Conway gave the United States another impressive victory, leaping 7-9 3/4 in the high jump for another meet record.

“It was my best result this year, so I’m obviously very pleased,” Conway said. “I’ve won this meet two years in a row now, and I want to come back and win a third next year.”

Other early American winners included Butch Reynolds in the 400 meters (45.03), Patrick Duffy in the 110-meter hurdles (13.73) and Lynda Tolbert in the women’s 100 hurdles (12.96).

Merlene Ottey of Jamaica overcame a slow start to win the women’s 100 meters in 11.04 to beat Florence Griffith-Joyner’s meet record.