Chelimo Sets 10,000-Meter World Record : Track and field: The Kenyan bests Barrios’ mark with a time of 27:07.91 at Stockholm meet. Americans dominate other events.

Richard Chelimo of Kenya broke the world record in the 10,000 meters Monday night, winning in 27 minutes 7.91 seconds at the DN Galan Grand Prix track and field meet.

Chelimo, cheered during the final laps by a near-capacity crowd of 17,421 at Olympic Stadium, ran the last five kilometers alone on his way to bettering the mark of 27:08.23 set by Arturo Barrios of Mexico in 1989.

“The crowd helped me,” Chelimo said. “And I got the pace that I wanted in the first part of the race.”

It was the 84th world record set at Stockholm’s Olympic Stadium, built for the 1912 Summer Games.

Barrios was among the 22 runners in the field on a perfect night for racing, but he dropped back early and finished well behind Chelimo in 27:34.27.

Domingos Castro of Portugal was third in 27:34.53, followed by Paul Evans of Britain (27:47.79) and German Silva of Mexico (28:03.64). Six runners dropped out.

Chelimo finished first in the Olympic 10,000 but was awarded a silver medal 24 hours later after a controversial decision that gave Morocco’s Khalid Skah the gold.

The 20-year-old Kenyan recorded his previous best time of 27:11.18 in 1991.

Noureddine Morceli of Algeria failed to improve his world mark in the 1,500 despite a good pace by Americans Ray Brown and Terrance Herrington. Morceli won in 3:31.83, well off his world record of 3:28.82 set last year.

Kevin Young and Kim Batten took the 400-meter hurdles events, and Gail Devers won the 100 as U.S. athletes dominated the meet.

Young, the Olympic champion and world-record holder, had a big challenge before extending his unbeaten streak to more than 20 races. He led coming out of the last turn but knocked down the last hurdle and held off Terrence Zellner by 0.05 seconds.

Young’s winning time was 49.61, almost three seconds off his world record of 46.78 set at last summer’s Olympics.

Derrick Adkins made it a U.S. triple in 49.66. Batten (54.63) and Tonja Buford (55.02) gave the Americans a 1-2 finish in the women’s 400 hurdles.

Devers, another Olympic champion, posted the year’s third fastest time (11.04). She recently ran a seasonal best of 10.96.

“I’m not looking for times here,” Devers said. “It will be different in the World Championships (in August). Then, I have got to be in great shape.

“The race was OK. But my body felt kind of funny. I got kind of tight. It could have been the (new) track.”

Gwen Torrence completed another double for the United States in 11.13. Russia’s Irina Privalova, who had an identical time, was third.

Frank Fredericks of Namibia caught Michael Johnson with a few meters left and edged the American by 0.04 seconds in the 200 meters. Fredericks’ time of 20.21 was an Olympic Stadium record.

Mark Everett was timed in 1:45.33 and finished 0.03 seconds ahead of Nixon Kiprotich. William Tanui, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist, was third in 1:45.41.

Mike Powell, the world-record holder in the long jump, produced his winning jump of 27 feet 6 in the fourth round.

Hollis Conway won the high jump at 7-7 for the last U.S. victory of the meet. Runner-up Troy Kemp of the Bahamas cleared the same height. Cuba’s Javier Sotomayor, the world record-holder, cleared 7-5 3/4 and tied for fourth.