Olympic champion McLeod sets sizzling 110m hurdles pace


Athletics - JAAA National Senior Championships - Men's 110m hurdles semi-final - National Stadium Kingston, Jamaica - June 24, 2017 Jamaica's Omar McLeod in action. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

KINGSTON (Reuters) - Reigning Olympic 110 metres hurdles champion Omar McLeod ran a sizzling 12.90 seconds in Kingston on Saturday to lay down a marker ahead of the world championships.

McLeod's run to secure a third successive national title at the Jamaica championships was the fifth fastest of all time, level with American Dominique Arnold's 2006 mark and only a tenth of a second behind Aries Merritt's world record.

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