European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 16, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday july 16, 1990 the stars and stripes Page 23 Oslo Norway apr Jan Zelezny of Czechoslovakia broke the world javelin record and Carl Lewis won the 100 meters in a photo finish saturday night at the Bis Lett games. Zelezny threw the javelin 294 feet 2 inches on his final Effort to break the record of 293-11 set by Britain s Steve Backley Only 12 Days earlier Backley finished second saturday with a toss of 288-6. It was the third new javelin Mark this year and the 49th world record set at Bis Lett stadium since 1924. Lewis a two time olympic Champion in the Loci meters edged Linford Christie of Britain and Ola Pade Adenike of Nigeria in the relatively slow time of 10.26. Christie finished second in 10.27 and Adenike was third in 10.28. Earlier Mohamed i Sangar of Morocco ran the fastest time of the year in the 3,000 meters and Salvatore Antigo of Italy repeated the feat in the 10,000 meters. I Sangar out kicked countryman Khalid Kah Down the stretch for a winning time of 7 minutes 39.40 seconds. Shah who had the previous fastest time in the event this year finished in 7 40.86. Gary Staines of Britain was third in a tight finish followed by Robes Ondieki of Kenya and americans John Gregorek and Randy Reina. Antigo out kicked Hammoud Bou Tayeb of Morocco with less than 100 meters left to win in 27 25.16, More than 30 seconds faster than his previous Best of the year. Thierry Pantel of France was a surprising third in 27 31.16. Antigo a Silver medallist at the 1988 olympics and Bou Tayeb broke away from the main pack Midway through the race. \ 1 a John Walker of new zealand who has retained top class form As a Middle distance runner for longer than anyone finished fourth in the 1,500 meters in his last race at Bis Lett  38, who became the first sub-3 50 minute Miler when he clocked 3 49.4 at Goteborg Sweden in 1975, broke one world record and one unofficial world Mark at Bis Lett stadium during his heyday in the 1970s. He set one in the Seldom contested 2,000 meters Here in 1976, the same year he won the 1,500 in the olympics. Three years earlier Walker was a member of a quartet from new zealand that broke the unofficial Mark for the 4 it 1,500-meter  who has the most sub 4-Mihute. Miles in history is competing for the last time on the european track circuit. Trofilo Benito of Spain won the 1,500 saturday in 3 37.50. Ulf Timmermann of East Germany captured the shot put at 67-8 v american Randy Barnes who broke Timmerman s world record on May 20 with a throw of 75-10 a a withdrew because of injury. Christine Wachtl and Sigrun Nodars of East Germany finished 1-2 in the women s 800. Wachtl runner up behind Nodars in both the 1987 world championships and the 1988 olympics was timed in 1 57.85. .2nd-place finish Good As Gold for relay a Minneapolis apr finishing second in the . Olympic festival was As Good As Gold for Jackie Joyner Kersee Joyner Kersee ran the second leg for a 400-meter relay team that finished second saturday to the foursome that will represent the United states in the upcoming Goodwill games. Joyner Ker seems team won the Gold medal however because the winning team was running Only As an exhibition. Joyner a Erscel steam finished in 43.52. The winning time was 42.34 seconds. Also saturday Bill Roth of Temple won four Gold medals in gymnastics and set a festival record on the . Olympic festival bar. The North team won the hockey Gold medal with a 2-1 Victory Over the East. Joyner Kersee the world record Holder in the heptathlon also cleared 6 feet 2 inches in a High jump exhibition. The medal in the festival Competition went to latrese Johnson of Riverside Calif., who cleared 6 feet. The 6-2 was a Erscel a Best since Clearing 6-4 in the 1988 olympic trials heptathlon. She made All four of her jumps Clearing 5-8, 5-10 and 6 feet on earlier attempts. A we just wanted to Clear 6-2,�?� Joyner Kersee said. A the Good thing about today was i was Able to execute the things in be worked on in practice. To Clear it on my first attempt was really  Hollis Conway the american record Holder in the High jump arrived saturday afternoon Ana was to compete sunday. It was to be his first Competition since cutting Short his schedule in Europe because of the death of his father july 1. A i Haven to begun to miss him because 1 still see him clearly in my head Quot said Conway who set the american record of 7 feet 10 inches in last years olympic festival at Oklahoma City. A i never considered not coming Here. Enough time had passed. It was time to go  Roth who had finished third in the All around thursday won Gold medals in the parallel bars floor exercise vault and the nigh bar. His team Gold medal from thursday gave him five golds tying a festival record set by Scott Johnson in 1983. Roth a 9,90 on the horizontal broke the festival record of 9.85 set last year by Lance Ringnald. Quot last night i had a dream that i was going to do Well. So i woke up this morning and was feeling Good Quot Roth said. Quot id have to say it was my Best meet Ever Quot Roth said. Quot i was labelled As an underdog coming into this  the other golds saturday went to Mark Warburton of Nebraska in the Pommel horse and cd Hainey Umphrey of Urcla in the still rings. Jackie Joyner Kersee takes the Baton from Maicel Malone to Start the second leg of the women s 400-meter relay  i a in divine Wendy Lucero did Well on her a make it or break it dives and easily won her third straight festival 3-meter springboard title. Lucero a 1988 olympian from Aurora colo., had missed one of her Tough dives during thursdays preliminaries and finished second to Krista Wilson of Laguna Hills Calif. But in saturdays finals she received scores in the 6 and 6 a Point Range on both the Back 2la-somersault from the tuck position and reverse 2 i tuck to win the Gold. Lucero scored 500.34 Points. The Silver medallist with 475.44 Points was Juhe Farrell of Holt mich., the 12th and final qualifier in prelims. Cokey Smith of Ann Arbor mich., won the Bronze with 471.18. Wilson who won the preliminaries was never a Factor after the seventh round and finished fourth with 467.55 Points. In the men s 3-meter, Mark Bradshaw of Columbus Ohio picked up his first festival Gold medal in six tries his total of 684.90 beat defending Champion Kent Ferguson of Boca Raton fla., who had 668.49, the Bronze went to Pat Jeffery of Madison n.j., with 611.19. In hockey Brian Sullivan of South Windsor conn., scored his first two goals of the festival during the second period saturday carrying the North to a Victory. Matt Delguidice of new Haven conn., made 31 saves in goal for the North which went 4-0 in the festival. Earlier saturday Bill Guerin of Wilbra Ham mass., scored three limes As the South rolled to a 9-1 Bronze medal Victory Over the West 0-4. In soccer the North women scored seven second half goals in beating the South 10-0 for the Gold medal. The North out shot the South 21-2 and scored three goals in the final 10 minutes. The South team included several members of the United slates under-19 team. Records continued to fall in weightlifting. Melanie Getz of Brentwood mo., competing in the 56-Kitogram class set an american record of 73.5 pkg on her fourth snatch attempt. She set a festival record of 70 pkg on her first snatch try then missed her next two before trying for the american record of 73.0 pkg set May 4 by Lynn Stoes Sci of Marietta a. Women s weightlifting has been in the festival Only two years. Robin Byrd of Newman ga., competing in the 52-kilogram class set . And festival records in the snatch 72.5clean and Jerk 85 and combined total lift 157.5 on Friday night. Also Friday Chris Leroux of , fla., competing in the men s 52-kilogram class set a . Junior record in the snatch by lifting 85 kilograms. The 13-year-old set another . Junior record in the Dean and Jerk 112and finished with the . Menus record of 115.5 pkg on his final attempt. Leroux also broke the festival total record of 177.5 pkg by lifting 2fx pkg