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United States sprinter Lolo Jones took a cool 0.10 seconds off the previous fastest time this season as she dominated the women's 60m hurdles at Stuttgart's IAAF indoor meeting.

Jones, 26, who suffered 100m hurdle heartache at the Beijing Olympics when she clipped the penultimate barrier to go from leader to seventh, dominated the race here to win in a time of 7.85 seconds.

"I had never won in Stuttgart, despite running here three times, so I wanted to win pretty bad," said the American who beat best-friend Priscilla Lopes-Schliep's previous mark of 7.95.

"We don't have an indoor championships in America, so I am focused on coming back to Berlin for the World Championships and getting a medal."

In the men's 3,000m, United States runner Bernard Lagat smashed the world's previous best mark with a time of 7:35.41secs to better Britain's Mo Farah, who ran 7:40.99 in Glasgow in January.

"I am happy with that, but I wanted to get a quicker time I must admit," said Lagat.

"I realised I was a bit slow a little too late. I knew I had a lot left, so I felt good."

With Cuba's Olympic champion Dayron Robles missing from Stuttgart, David Oliver, who took bronze in Beijing, won the men's 60m hurdles with a time of 7.45, edging Russia's Evgeniy Borisov who ran the same time in a photo-finish.

In the men's 60m, Germany's Christian Blum won in a time of 6.56 from United States's Kendall Stevens who ran 6.57.

In a separate meeting in Arnstadt, east Germany, Russia's Ivan Ukhov added a centimetre to his own best world performance of the year in the men's high jump with a leap of 2.36m.

Ukhov, the 2005 junior European champion, has set the four best performances indoors so far this winter just a month before the European Indoor Championships in Turin.

AFP