SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) – Bernard Williams, the U.S. champion in the 100 meters, upstaged former world record-holder Maurice Greene on Friday to win that event at the Golden League meet.

Williams, who won the U.S. title two weeks, was clocked in 10.05 seconds Friday, his best performance of the season, and edged Nigeria’s Deji Aliu with Greene, the three-time reigning world champion, third.

“I run each race just as if it were the last one, because you never know what can happen tomorrow,” Williams said after the race run at Stade de France in muggy, cloudy conditions with no wind.

Greene – who held up the race by false-starting – was timed in 10.11, way off his year’s best mark of 9.94 and short of countryman Tim Montgomery’s world record of 9.78. Montgomery did not enter the event.

Olympic 5,000 champion Gabriela Szabo of Romania used a late sprint to overtake Morocco’s Zhor El Kamch win the 3,000 in 8:34.09, the fastest time in the world this year.

Gail Devers, a three-time world champion in the hurdles, won the 100 hurdles in 12.49.

Devers sported long, snaking, midnight-blue fingernails, and hugged fans after the victory.

Allen Johnson, the reigning 110 hurdles world champion, clocked the fastest time in the world this year to win in dominating fashion.

Johnson, a three-time world champion and former Olympic gold medalist, crossed in 12.97, beating fellow American Duane Ross (13.21) and Latvia’s Stanislav Olijars (13.26).

In other men’s events, world champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic won the 400 hurdles; Kenya’s Abraham Chebii nudged out Ethiopia’s Haile Gebreselassie in the 5,000; France’s Mehdi Baala won the 1,500; John Capel of the United States the 200; and Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic won the javelin with a throw of 292 feet, 2 inches.

In other women’s events, Kelli White of the United States won the 200; countrywoman Sandra Glover won the 400 hurdles; Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas won the 100; Croatia’s Blanka Vlasic won the high jump; and Russia’s Tatiana Lebedeva won the triple jump.

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