Lewis Wins 200; Not Much Competition for Reynolds

Carl Lewis nipped teammate Floyd Heard at the tape to win the 200-meter dash in the Indy Games at Indianapolis Wednesday night in a final tuneup for next week’s Olympic trials.

Lewis won in 20.43 seconds to 20.44 for Heard, a teammate on the Santa Monica Track Club. It was Lewis’ first 200 since he won the event in a meet at Stockholm last July.

The old guard of American track and field fared well in this meet. Lewis and Evelyn Ashford (100 meters in 11.39) won their events, and Renaldo Nehemiah finished second in a comeback attempt in the 110-meter high hurdles in 13.70.

Steve Lewis and Danny Everett finished 1-2 in the 400. Steve Lewis, the gold medalist in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, won in 44.51. Everett, the bronze medalist, finished in 44.56.

Johnny Gray ran the fastest time in the world this year in winning the 800 in 1:44.04.

Cletus Clark won the 110 hurdles in 13.66 racing into a strong headwind. The 33-year-old Nehemiah has run sparingly this spring because of an injured right Achilles’ tendon.