ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — This nation’s best track athletes aren’t merely fast.
It seems they’re fast healers, too.
And no hurdle is too high.
Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder Aries Merritt, five months after a kidney transplant, won the men’s 60-meter hurdles Saturday at the New Mexico Classic and Multis indoor track meet.
Three-time Olympian and two-time world champion Lolo Jones, coming off October hip surgery, won the women’s 60-meter hurdles.
The star-studded meet at the Albuquerque Convention Center concluded Saturday afternoon.
Merritt, who won gold in the 110-meter hurdles four years ago in London and holds the world record (12.