Ottey Gets Revenge in 200 Meters

Jamaica’s Merlene Ottey, the world’s best female sprinter the past two years, avenged a rare defeat by equaling her 200-meter world record of 22.24 seconds in the world indoor track and field championships Sunday at Seville, Spain.

She beat Irina Sergeyeva, the Soviet who had upset her in Friday’s final of the 60-meter dash, ending a 73-race winning streak that began in 1989.

The German men’s team of Rico Lieder, Jens Carlowitz, Karsten Just and Thomas Schonlebe took more than two seconds off the 1,600-meter relay world record of 3:05.21 set by the United States two years ago at Glasgow, Scotland, winning in 3:03.05. And in the women’s 1,600-meter relay, the German team of Sandra Seuser, Katrin Schreiter, Annett Hesselbarth and Grit Breuer shattered the old mark of 3:28.80, set by the Soviet Union at Paris on Feb. 23, clocking 3:27.22.