Sell-out crowd are rewarded with a special night in Stockholm’s Globe

Stockholm, Sweden - For the 8th straight year the Stockholm Globe Arena was sold out - 10,500 spectators - for the GE Galan – IAAF Indoor Permit meeting - and those that came to see new World 60m Hurdles record holder** Susanna Kallur perform her magic once more this winter were not disappointed.

Despite a somewhat sluggish start and despite not (as has been her habit) accelerating away from everybody else within the first few steps (Kallur didn't get the outright lead until after the second hurdle) she won by over one and a half metres. And the explanation for that sizeable winning margin certainly was not that her opponents had any major problems: Actually Josephine Onyia (7.91), Lacena Golding-Clarke (7.93) och Priscilla Lopes-Schliep (7.93) all improved their seasonal best marks.

Kallur’s winning time 7.74 lowered the arena record by 0.06 and missed her own World record by the same margin. But she did admit afterwards that she had begun to feel in her hamstrings the effect of the string of fast races. Thus she was now looking forward to giving her body some rest and easy training before Valencia.  The national championships on Sunday in Malmö is Kallur's only remaining competition before the World Indoor Championships.