Van Zyl clears hurdles in year’s fastest time

MONACO: South Africa’s Commonwealth Games champion LJ Van Zyl enjoyed a superb run here on Tuesday to record the fastest time this year in the 400m hurdles at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting.

The 24-year-old — sixth in the Olympic final last year and sixth in the 2005 world championships — posted a time of 47.94 to beat home America’s 2005 world champion Bershawn Jackson while Jamaican veteran Danny McFarlane was third.