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Liu Xiang wins third Asian hurdles title

BEIJING: China’s former world record holder Liu Xiang has easily won his third Asian 110 metre hurdle championship, posting a time of 13.50 seconds in a driving rain in the southern city of Guangzhou.

The 2004 Athens Olympic champion led from the start late Thursday to win his second competition since returning from surgery on an Achilles tendon injury that kept him out of the 2008 Beijing Games. The win automatically qualifies Liu for next year’s World Athletics Championships. Team-mate Shi Dongpeng finished second, while South Korea’s Park Tae-kyong won the bronze.

The performance was far off Liu’s personal best and former world record time of 12.88 and slower than the 13.15 he ran in September when he finished second to US world number two Terrence Trammell in his first race after surgery. Last month, the 26-year-old won his third national 110m hurdle championship at the China Games, winning in a time of 13.34.

The star hurdler will compete in next month’s East Asian Games in Hong Kong before beginning winter training and preparing for the World Indoor Championships in Doha in March, Sun said. afp

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