Jacobs Sets Two-Mile Indoor Record

Regina Jacobs ran the last 200 meters of the women’s two-mile in a blistering 32 seconds to win in 9 minutes 23.38 seconds Sunday at the Boston Indoor Games, breaking Lynn Jennings’ 16-year-old world indoor record of 9:28.15.

“I got out there and set a good pace,” Jacobs said. “It was a really fast track. I’m not the only one who set a record.”

Tim Broe was clocked in 7:39.23 in the men’s 3,000 meters, breaking Steve Scott’s American record of 7:39.94 set in 1981. Broe finished second to Kenya’s Leonard Mucheru, who finished in 7:37.46.

Slovenia’s Jolanda Ceplak ran the fastest indoor 800-meter time by a woman on U.S. soil, finishing in 1:57.79.

David Krummenacher’s 2:17.85 set the American record in the 1,000 meters, breaking Ocky Clark’s mark of 2:18.19 set in 1989.

Chandra Sturrup set a meet record in the women’s 60 meters, winning in 7.10. Melissa Morrison, a three-time U.S. indoor champion, won the women’s 60-meter hurdles in 8.04.

Jeff Hartwig, the American outdoor record holder, won the pole vault at 18 feet 81/4 inches and Amy Acuff won the women’s high jump at 6-2.

Kenya’s Bernard Lagat had the fastest indoor mile this year, winning in 3:55.16.

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Colleen de Reuck of the United States won the women’s division in a cross-country race at Tourcoing, France, and David Makory of Kenya won the men’s race.

De Reuck covered a 3.4-mile course in 20:14. Makory was timed in 31:45 over a six-mile course.

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Former Olympic champion Dieter Baumann of Germany returned to competition after a two-year drug ban, finishing second in a 3,000-meter race in an indoor meet at Dortmund, Germany.

Ethiopia’s Million Wolde, a gold medalist at the Sydney Olympics, won in 7:47.22. Baumann finished in 7:47.54.

Russia’s Svetlana Feofanova broke her European pole vault record, vaulting 15 feet 3 inches.

Soccer

Shannon MacMillan and Tiffeny Milbrett scored in the first eight minutes at Guangzhou, China, giving the U.S. women’s team a 2-0 victory over China on Sunday, the final day of the Four Nations tournament.

The U.S. finished in third place with one victory, one loss and one tie. Norway, which finished 2-1, won the tournament despite losing to Germany, 3-1, on Sunday.

Winter Sports

Overall World Cup leader Stephan Eberharter of Austria won a rain-interrupted super-giant slalom by 0.02 seconds over Switzerland’s Didier Cuche at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, his seventh victory this season.

Stina Hofgard Nilsen won a World Cup race for the first time, edging fellow Norwegian Andrine Flemmen in a giant slalom at Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.

Americans Sarah Schleper and Kristina Koznick finished 14th and 15th, respectively.

George Hackl of Germany won the final men’s singles race of the luge World Cup season, at Winterberg, Germany.

Tony Benshoof of the U.S. finished second for his first World Cup medal.

Swimming

Britain’s Zoe Baker lowered the women’s short-course 50-meter breaststroke record to 30.31 seconds and Germany’s Thomas Rupprath set a world record of 50.10 in the men’s 100 butterfly in a World Cup meet at Berlin.

Lenny Krayzelberg of the U.S., a triple gold medalist at the Sydney Olympics, was sixth in the 50 backstroke. He is returning from shoulder surgery.

American Ed Moses, who set five world records, and Slovakia’s Martina Moravcova were selected the best World Cup swimmers this season.

Passings

Francisco Cabanas, a flyweight boxer who was Mexico’s first Olympic medalist after paying his way to the 1932 Los Angeles Games, died Saturday. He was 90.