BOSTON (AP) – Gail Devers is on track to make history.

Devers easily qualified for the finals in the 60 meters and 60 hurdles Saturday at the U.S. Indoor Track and Field Championships. She is trying to become the only American to win both events at this meet.

The 37-year-old Devers qualified for the final in the 60 hurdles in 7.97 seconds, the second-fastest time behind the 7.93 mark of Melissa Morrison. She also qualified for the 60 in the best time, 7.11.

Finals in both events are later Saturday. The only other person to win the 60 and 60 hurdles at the U.S. Indoors was Chi Cheng of Taipei in 1970, when foreigners were allowed to compete in the meet. Terrence Trammell unsuccessfully tried the double in 2002. Maurice Greene also qualified for the 60 finals, finishing third in his heat in 6.61. He later pulled out with a right leg injury. Shawn Crawford, who won that heat, posted the fasted time in the semifinals.

in 6.55. Greene, competing in his first meet of the season, has high hopes of repeating as the Olympic champion in the 100 this summer in Athens.

LaTasha Colander was disqualified from the second women’s 60 semifinal. After a false start charged to the group, she jumped too quickly on the second try and was automatically disqualified under new IAAF rules.

In other events, Tiombe Hurd won the women’s triple jump and Tim Seaman won the 5,000 race walk.

Hurd, the 2001 world indoor bronze medalist, placed first with a leap of 45 feet, 5 inches despite feeling under the weather. Two-time defending champion Vanitta Kinard was fourth, jumping 44-71/2.

“It wasn’t pretty, but it was just enough to win the competition,” Hurd said.

There was a moment of silence for racewalker Albert Heppner, who died last week. Heppner apparently drove to one of the tallest bridges in San Diego County and jumped 450 feet to his death. His body was found in a thicket of sagebrush and manzanita at the bottom of a rocky gorge.

Runners wore a black ribbon in memory of Heppner.

Seaman won his seventh straight U.S. title in the 5,000 race walk. Afterward, he said winning did not mean as much because of what happened to Heppner.

“My mind-set today was somewhere else,” Seaman said. “I have been mentally drained with everything. I didn’t want to be here, but my friends and family said, ‘No, you have to do it, do it for Al.’

“(The win) almost doesn’t matter to me. In the overall scheme of things, it is insignificant compared to what I have had to deal with lately, and what everyone has had to deal with.”

Allen Johnson, the defending 60 hurdles champion, also qualified for the final, though he had the sixth-fastest time in 7.68. Duane Ross once again had the top mark, finishing in 7.58.

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