INDIANAPOLIS - Sprinter Xavier Carter, who won four national titles last month at the 2006 NCAA Outdoor Championships, ran the second-fastest men's 200m time in history, and China's Olympic champion Liu Xiang broke the men's 110m hurdles world record Tuesday at the 'Athletissima' Super Grand Prix meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Running out of lane 8, Carter poured it on down the stretch to pass fellow American Tyson Gay to win the men's 200 meters in the shocking time of 19.63 seconds (wind +0.4 mps), the second fastest time in history. Only Michael Johnson's world record time of 19.32 seconds from the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta is faster. Carter's previous fastest time in the 200 meters was 20.02 seconds from last year.

Gay finished as the runner-up in a blistering 19.70 seconds, which is the fifth-fastest time in history. Jamaican Usain Bolt was third in 19.88 seconds, with reigning World Outdoor Championships silver medalist Wallace Spearmon finishing fourth in 19.90 seconds, just off his personal best of 19.89 from last year. 2004 World Junior 400m champion LaShawn Merritt finished fifth with a new personal best time of 20.10.

China's Liu Xiang set a new 110m hurdles world record by winning in 12.88 seconds (wind +1.1 m/s). With his gold medal winning performance of 12.91 at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Xiang jointly held the previous world record with Britain's Colin Jackson established with his victory at the 1993 World Outdoor Championships.

Finishing as the runner-up was reigning USA Outdoor champion Dominique Arnold, who set a new American record with his time of 12.90 seconds, which betters the previous standard of 12.92 set originally by National Track & Field Hall of Famer Roger Kingdom in Zurich on August 16, 1989, and equaled twice in 1996 by Allen Johnson, who won the Olympic gold medal that summer in Atlanta. Arnold's previous career best was 13.02 seconds from 2005. Two-time Olympic silver medalist Terrence Trammell was third in 13.02.

Other U.S. winners in Lausanne included reigning World Indoor 60m champion Leonard Scott, who won the 100 meters in 10.05 seconds, and 2005 World 400m hurdles champion Bershawn Jackson, who won going away in 47.77 seconds.

U.S. women's winners in Lausanne included the resurgent Marion Jones, who continued her winning ways in the 100 meters this season with her time of 10.94 seconds, the third-fastest time in the world this year. Americans made it a clean sweep of the top three positions as 2005 U.S. national 100m champ Lisa Barber finished as the runner-up in a personal best time of 11.03 seconds and 2003 World Outdoor Championships silver medalist Torri Edwards placed third in 11.07.

Reigning World 100m hurdles champion Michelle Perry also posted a win in her specialty in the world-leading time of 12.43 seconds, narrowly edging fellow American Damu Cherry, who was the runner-up in the second fastest time globally this season of 12.44. Elsewhere, 2005 World Outdoor Championships silver medalist Chaunte Howard won the women's high jump with a clearance of 1.99 meters/6 feet, 6.25 inches.

In the men's 1,500 meters, Kenya's Shadrack Korir was the winner in 3 minutes 31.96 seconds, with reigning U.S. champion Bernard Lagat finishing third in 3:32.19.

In field event action, reigning World Indoor and Outdoor champion Walter Davis finished third in the men's triple jump (17.40 meters/57 feet, 1 inch) and American record holder Kim Kreiner placed fifth in the women's javelin throw (61.74 meters/202 feet 7 inches).

For more information on the 2006 Athletissima Super Grand Prix meet in Lausanne, including the complete results, visit www.iaaf.org.