Nicolas Macrozonaris will run in Lausanne, Switzerland on July 1st at the Athletissima 2003 Super Grand Prix meeting.

"I feel strong," Macrozonaris said today when contacted at his European training base in Brescia, Italy.  "I will hopefully run another two races there, good experience heading into nationals and if all goes well Paris in August."

The Lausanne meet will not be short of top sprinters.  American stars Tim Montgomery and Maurice Greene will meet up for the first time this year.  Newly crowned US 100-metre champion Bernard Williams is also in the field.

"It's a fast track there apparently," said Macrozonaris about Lausanne.  "The top Americans and others will be there too so it should be interesting."

Following Lausanne Macrozonaris competes in Paris on the 4th of July before returning to Montreal.

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Trikala, Greece (AP) — Nicolas Macrozonaris, of Montreal, placed third in the 100 metres at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meet in Greece Tuesday, further establishing himself as a sprinter capable of challenging when the Olympics are staged in Athens in 2004.

In the women's 400-meter hurdles, American Sandra Glover was first in 54.79 seconds, beating Brazil's Surita Febbraio and Androula Sialou of Cyprus.

Nicolas continued to run with consistency today in Trikala, Greece at the Super Grand Prix "Tsiklitiria".

Following a strong 10.17 run in his semi-final, Nicolas clocked a 10.15 seconds in the final finishing 3rd, behind Nigerian Deji Aliu's 10 seconds flat winning time. 

Nicolas will remain in Europe through early July, where he plans to run a few more races including a Golden League 100 metre race in Paris on July 4th.  He will return to Montreal on July 5th, at which time he will focus on Canadian nationals preparations (July 18-20).

Full results:

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Nicolas Macrozonaris (PB 10.03) has confirmed his participation in the Super Grand Prix "Tsiklitiria", and departs this Saturday June 21 for the northern Greek city of Trikala for the June 24 event. 

The 100-metre field will also include European 100-metre champion Dwain Chambers (9.87) and fellow British sprinters Jason Gardener (9.98) and Darren Campbell (10.04).  Trinidad & Tobago's Ato Boldon (9.86) will also line up.

Greek 100-metre athletes in the field include national record holder Aggelos Pavlakakis (10.11), Aristotelis Gavelas (10.14), Georgios Theodoridis (10.20) and Panagiotis Sarris (10.17).

The Thessalian city is hosting this year in lieu of the Athens Olympic stadium that is closed for Olympic games renovations.

The event will be televised live by Greek satellite channel ANTENNA, as well as Eurosport.

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Golden Spike, Super Grand Prix   Ostrava, Czech Republic, June 12, 2003   100 metres results: wind 0.0 m/s
Finish	Athlete	Nat/Born	React	Result
1st	Mark Lewis-Francis	GBR/82	0.134	10.07
2nd	Kim Collins	SKN/76	0.169	10.09
3rd	Dwain Chambers	GBR/78	0.145	10.16
4th	Coby Miller	USA/76	0.137	10.18
5th	Uchenna Emedolu	NGR/76	0.17	10.22
6th	Nicolas Macrozonaris	CAN/80	0.139	10.25
7th	Jason Gardener	GBR75	0.165	10.27
8th	Jiri Vojtik	CZE/81	0.164	10.52

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Canadian Press, June 6, 2003

American Coby Miller won the gold medal with a time of 10.10 seconds. Nigerian Uchenna Emedolu was second in 10.19 with Ricardo Williams of Jamaica third in 10.29.

Macrozonaris was sure Emedolu, who was in the lane next to him, had false started and the race would be stopped. But the other runners kept going to the finish line.

"I thought they were going to call it back," Macrozonaris said. "The guy took off so early I couldn't believe it.

"I'm disappointed not to get the run in. I was feeling in really good shape. I though I had a personal best in me."

Macrozonaris ran a personal-best time of 10.03 second last month at a Grand Prix in Mexico, where he edged world-record holder Tim Montgomery of the U.S., for a stunning gold.

"There was no sensor in the blocks so it came down to the decision of the officials," said Macrozonaris' coach Daniel St-Hilaire. "I guess the good side to this is that he's saved his strength for the Super Grand Prix next week.

"We'll chalk this one down as a stepping stone in his development as a young athlete."

In the women's 400-metre hurdles, Karlene Haughton of Brampton, Ont., was sixth in 57.42 seconds. Montreal's Achraf Tadili of Montreal was eighth in the men's 800-metre event with a time of in 1:46.90, the second-fastest time in his career and the fastest by a Canadian this year.

A very disappointing non-result in Torino, Italy today for Nicolas Macrozonaris.

Believing the race would be called back after a quick start, Nicolas did not get out of the blocks.

The officials, who did not have the assistance of electronic start equipment, did not call the race back.

Nicolas will now move on to Ostrava, Czech Republic, for a 100-metre race on June 12.

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Nicolas will line up against the marquee names of 100 metre sprinting in the next two weeks when he races in Italy and the Czech Republic.

In Turin this Friday, June 6, Nicolas will race against track legend Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, silver medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics behind Canadian great Donovan Bailey.  American Coby Miller, who finished fourth behind Nicolas’s winning run in Mexico City last month, is also in the Grand Prix II race.

Following Turin, Nicolas travels to Eastern Europe where on June 12 he will race against a trio of British sprinters including Jason Gardener, Mark Lewis-Francis and European Champion Dwain Chambers. 

The Ostrava, Super Grand Prix field will also include Commonwealth Games champion Kim Collins of St-Kitts, who last month defeated world and Olympic champion Maurice Greene.  The US’s Miller is also in this field.

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HENGELO, Netherlands (CP, posted 6/1/03) - Canadian champion Nicolas Macrozonaris posted another strong showing on the Grand Prix track and field circuit Sunday.

He was the only Canadian at Sunday's meet.

Nicolas finished second today at the Grand Prix race run in Hengelo, Netherlands.   The race was run in less than ideal conditions, into a strong headwind of -2.2 metres/second.

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