INDIANAPOLIS - The world's top two hurdlers both will
attempt a hurdle/sprint double Saturday at the Tyson Foods
Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Defending world indoor 60-meter hurdle champions Gail
Devers and Allen Johnson will go for 60-meter/60m hurdles
doubles at the Randal Tyson Track Center.
The third stop on USA Track & Field's Indoor Golden Spike
Tour, the Tyson Foods Invitational will be broadcast on
Saturday from 9-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time, on ESPN2.
A two-time Olympic 100m gold medalist and
seven-time world champion indoors and outdoors in the
sprints and hurdles, Devers will run in the women's
60-meter dash and 60-meter hurdles in Fayetteville. The
American record holder in both events is undefeated in the
hurdles in 2004, having won the adidas Boston Indoor
Games (7.85) and Verizon Millrose Games (7.76 world
leader). She won the world indoor title in the hurdles in 2003
and was the 1993 and '97 world indoor champion in the
sprint.
Johnson also has planned a double in his future. His
time of 7.43 seconds in the 60m hurdles at the Verizon
Millrose Games is the fastest in the world this year, and
earned him the Fred Schmertz Trophy as the meet's top
performer. The 1996 Olympic gold medalist in the hurdles,
Johnson owns an unprecedented four world outdoor titles in
the 110m hurdles, and has two world indoor titles in the
60m hurdles, from 1995 and 2003. Johnson also is an
accomplished sprinter and was the 1998 USA outdoor
runner-up in the 200 meters.
A full preview of the Tyson Foods Invitational will
move Thursday. For more information on the Indoor Golden
Spike Tour, visit www.usatf.org.