SAINT-DENIS, France -- Bernard Williams, the U.S. champion in the 100 meters, upstaged former world record-holder Maurice Greene on Friday to win that event at the Golden League meet.

Williams, who won the U.S. title two weeks, was clocked in 10.05 seconds Friday, his best performance of the season, and edged Nigeria's Deji Aliu. Greene, the three-time reigning world champion, was third.

"I run each race just as if it were the last one because you never know what can happen tomorrow," Williams said after the race run at Stade de France in muggy, cloudy conditions with no wind.

Greene -- who held up the race by false-starting -- was timed in 10.11, way off his year's best mark of 9.94 and short of countryman Tim Montgomery's world record of 9.78. Montgomery did not enter the event.

"The false start held me back a little bit at the start," Greene said. "I was really interested in getting away quick, but I didn't think it was a false start although that was what the computer said.

"I'm just taking it easy right now, but I will be ready when the time comes."

Olympic 5,000 champion Gabriela Szabo of Romania used a late sprint to overtake Morocco's Zhor El Kamch and win the 3,000 in 8:34.09, the fastest time in the world this year.

Szabo trailed by about 100 yards heading into the last lap.

"I wanted to prove something to myself, I knew I still had a good finish" Szabo said. "Just before the race, I was a little bit nervous. It was my first race for a long time."

Allen Johnson (12.97 in the 110-meter hurdles), France's Mehdi Baala (3:30.98 in the 1,500 meters) and Russia's Tatiana Lebedeva (15.2 meters in the women's triple jump) also had 2003 bests Friday.

Johnson, the reigning 110 hurdles world champion, won in dominating fashion. The three-time world champion and former Olympic gold medalist crossed in 12.97, beating fellow American Duane Ross (13.21) and Latvia's Stanislav Olijars (13.26).

"It was a great race and promises a lot for the world championships; my opponents pushed me a lot," Johnson said.

Gail Devers, a three-time world champion in the hurdles, won the 100 hurdles in 12.49.

Devers sported long, snaking, midnight-blue fingernails, and she hugged fans after the victory. She then took the microphone and addressed the crowd of 55,500 in French -- saying she loved their support and was "tres content(e)" (very happy) to be coming back for the worlds in August.

In other men's events, world champion Felix Sanchez of the Dominican Republic won the 400 hurdles; Kenya's Abraham Chebii nudged out Ethiopia's Haile Gebreselassie in the 5,000; John Capel of the United States won the 200; and Jan Zelezny of the Czech Republic won the javelin with a throw of 292 feet, 2 inches.

In other women's events, Kelli White of the United States won the 200; countrywoman Sandra Glover won the 400 hurdles; Chandra Sturrup of the Bahamas won the 100; and Croatia's Blanka Vlasic won the high jump.

Information from The Associated Press and Reuters was used in this report.