Jones Still on Course After Top 100 Time

Marion Jones, who hopes to win an unprecedented five gold medals in the Sydney Olympics, won $10,000 Saturday at the British Grand Prix in London for clocking 10.78 seconds, the fastest time at 100 meters this season.

Earlier in the week, a wind-aided 10.68 was worth a diamond valued at $10,000 at a meet in Stockholm.

“I think five is possible if I stay healthy and happy--you guys look out,” Jones said. “I still have a few things to iron out . . . but it feels good. It’s important not to be tired when Sydney comes around. I will be fresh and ready to go.”

Defending Olympic champion Allen Johnson continued his comeback after a year of injury, taking the 110 high hurdles in 13.35.

In addition to Jones, three others also got $10,000 bonuses for the best world performances of the season.

Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco, the world’s best middle-distance runner, clocked in 3 minutes 45.96 seconds in the mile--the eighth-fastest ever. It was the fifth-fastest mile of his life, but well off his world record of 3:43.13.

In the women’s 5,000, Ayelech Worku of Ethiopia picked up the bonus by running 14:41.23, the top time in the world this season. The previous best was by American Regina Jacobs.

In a high-jump best of the season, Vyacheslav Voronin of Russia cleared 7 feet, 10 1/2 inches.

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Khalid Khannouchi, the marathon world record-holder, finished fifth in the Peoples Beach to Beacon 10K Road Race at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, his first race as a U.S. citizen. The Moroccan-born Khannouchi finished 32 seconds behind winner Joseph Kimani of Kenya. . . . Former University of Oregon track and field coach Bill Dellinger, 66, was in fair condition at a Rhode Island hospital, recovering from a stroke he had in his sleep two days earlier.

Tennis

Harel Levy celebrated his 22nd birthday by continuing his amazing run at the Tennis Masters Series-Canada tournament in Toronto.

The qualifier from Israel advanced to the final with an exciting 6-3, 1-6, 6-4 roller-coaster victory over Jiri Novak of the Czech Republic. Levy becomes this event’s first Israeli finalist and the first qualifier to reach the championship since 1983 when Sweden’s Anders Jarryd accomplished the feat.

Levy, who entered the tournament ranked No. 144 in the world, will face eighth-seeded Marat Safin of Russia in today’s final. Safin beat Wayne Ferreira of South Africa, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4.

Miscellany

Montreal Canadien great Jean Beliveau is responding well to treatment for a malignant tumor in his neck.

“I’m very encouraged and confident about the future and so are my doctors,” Beliveau, who turns 69 on Aug. 31, told the Journal de Montreal.

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The New Jersey Nets have agreed to a multiyear contract with free-agent forward Aaron Williams. The 6-foot-9 Williams is a six-year NBA veteran.

Bayern Munich defeated Manchester United, 3-1, on Alexander Zickler’s two goals at Munich, Germany, to win its centenary tournament in a rematch of the 1999 European Champions Cup final.

Two months after climbing out of a plane crash that killed the pilot, jockey Frankie Dettori, in his comeback race, guided Atlantis Prince to victory in the Tote Exacta Conditions Stakes at Newmarket, England.

Challenger Eric Morel of the U.S. defeated Thailand’s Sornpichai Kratchingdaeng in a unanimous decision to claim the World Boxing Assn. flyweight championship on Friday at Madison, Wis. . . . Zab Judah rebounded from an early knockdown to stop fellow American Terronn Millett in the fourth round and retain his International Boxing Federation junior welterweight title at Montville, Conn.

Gary Scelzi led Top Fuel qualifying in Sonoma, Calif., for the FRAM Autolite Nationals with a quarter-mile run of 4.634 seconds at a top speed of 310.98 mph. Whit Bazemore and Warren Johnson also led their divisions in the $1.8-million competition at Sears Point Raceway, the 15th of 23 events in the $45-million NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series.