Oslo, June 30: Britain's Dwight Chambers stunned the world's fastest man, Maurice Greene, at the Bislett Games, the first Golden League meeting of the season, here.

Chambers, 24, broke brilliantly to clock 10.05sec in the 100m, edging out the American triple world champion and Olympic gold medallist by one hundredth of a second, with Greene's compatriot Tim Montgomery back in third.
The shock defeat shattered Greene's dream of grabbing a share of a 50 kilogram gold bar - the reward for any athlete to win seven races at each of the seven Golden League events.

It also leaves him with one remaining ambition for 2002 - to lower his world record time of 9.79.

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"The result is more important than money," laughed Greene, taking the loss on the chin.

At his side Chambers, who took bronze at the 1999 world championships, claimed his night's work represented "an important step in my career".

On a cold evening and where athletes competed against a strong headwind there was no such drama in the men's mile. Moroccan master Hicham El Guerrouj prevailed there, and in the women's 100m went expectedly to Marion Jones. Her American compatriot Gail Devers also took the women's 100m hurdles.

After posting a time of 10.96 to beat Jamaican Tayna Lawrence Jones was more than happy to draw a line under her unexpected defeat at the distance at last year's world championships.

The 26-year-old Olympic champion, who dominated from 40m out, said: "I expected a lot from this race, and it helps the confidence to run 10.96 in this wind.

"This is the sixth time I've run here. It's really amazing to run at this stadium because the crowd are so close to the track."

Devers, at 35 no mean veteran, ran the 100m hurdles in an excellent 12.53, clear of Brigitte Foster, another Jamaican and Spain's Glory Alozie.

Devers observed: "I am pleasantly surprised by my time. That's in spite of the fact I was very tired because the trip from the USA was badly hit by wind and lots of little problems.

"Technically, I've had a pretty good race even though it wasn't perfect. I never clipped any hurdle." Romania's Olympic 5000m champion Gabriela Szabo set the best time of the year, 14min 46.86sec, getting up on the line to edge out Ethiopian Berhane Adere.


El Guerrouj kept his gold bar hopes going in the mile clocking 3:50.12, almost two seconds ahead of Kenyan Laban Rotich. In the men's triple jump British legend Jonathan Edwards shrugged off a 14-year age difference by beating 22-year-old Christian Olsson who had said before the event that he was confident of victory against "Mr Triple Jump".

Edwards jumped 17.51m compared to his Swedish rival's 17.47.

The next Golden League event is in Paris on July 5. Bureau Report