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World indoor champion Lolo Jones ran just outside her 2009 season-leading time to win the women's 60m hurdles at the American indoor championships.

Two-times Olympic medallist Terrence Trammell clocked 7.37 seconds for the fastest time of the year to win the men's race.

Jones, whose heart-breaking, late-hurdle stumble knocked her out of medal contention at the Beijing Games last August, clocked 7.84 seconds to win the title.

The victories earned Jones and Trammel $25,000 each as overall champions of the four-meeting US indoor series.

"I am finally a mature, veteran hurdler who learns from her mistakes and is not going to hit any more hurdles," Jones said.

"I don't know if I'll ever be over it. But that's a good thing. It will inspire me over the next four years," added Jones, who has run 7.82 seconds this season.

Trammell, who won silver medals at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, also hopes to have another chance at the Games. A hamstring strain knocked him out in the first round at Beijing.

"It was frustrating, but it's not like I hadn't been to the Olympics before," the 30-year-old said.

Olympic silver medallist Jenn Stuczynski raised her national women's pole vault record to 4.83 metres, a centimetre higher than the mark she set on the same track last month. She missed three attempts at 4.86 metres.

Only two women have jumped higher - Russian Yelena Isinbayeva, whose world record is 5.00 metres, and her compatriot Svetlana Feofanova who cleared 4.85 metres in 2004.

Mark Jelks won the men's 60 metres in 6.51 seconds to equal the season's fastest time and 2006 world indoor champion Lisa Barber clocked 7.15 seconds for the women's title.

Reuters