Jamaican Merlene Ottey broke the four-year-old world...
From Staff and Wire Reports
Jamaican Merlene Ottey broke the four-year-old world 200 meters indoor record in a meet at Sindelfingen, Germany, being clocked at 22.24 seconds to take three-hundredths of a second off the previous best by Heike Drechsler of East Germany at Indianapolis in March 1987.
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