teenager Raneika Bean in qualifying for the Commonwealth Games.

And Devon Bean, who competed in the 1996 Olympic Games, was already in some pretty fast company on the weekend when he ran alongside US sprinter Michael Johnson at an event in Texas.

Bean, who has qualified for the Games in three events -- the 100 metres, 200 metres and long jump -- clocked a personal best time of 21.11 seconds in finishing eighth in the 200 metres.

Johnson, the world record holder, won in 20.31 seconds.

Bean -- no relation to Raneika -- improved on his personal best of 21.33 set at the Northeast Louisiana Track Classic earlier in the month where he placed second. It was Bean's first competitive 200 metres race in almost two years.

Bean also clocked his second fastest time ever in the 100 metres, 10.34 seconds.

Both performances put him inside the qualifying time of 21.50 seconds for the Commonwealth Games in Malaysia in September. This past weekend Bean also qualified for the long jump when he placed first with a leap of 7.56 metres (24-feet, 93 inches).

At the recent Mt. SAC Relays in California, Bean had a time of 10.54 seconds in the 100 metres which also passed the Commonwealth Games qualifying time. He also ran the third leg of the 4x400 metres relay when his University of Arkansas team set a school record of 3:09.03. Bean's split was 46.1 seconds.

Two days earlier Bean took part in the Pamona Titzer Meet in California, competing in the 100 metres and the long jump. He ran the fourth fastest time in the 100 metres, 10.59 seconds, while Canadian Olympian Burny Surin had the fastest (10.31 seconds).

In the long jump, Bean was second with a leap of 23-feet, 113 inches.

Armstrong, injured earlier in the year but now back in training for the last three months, celebrated his first 1,500 metres of the year at the Princeton Invitational at Princeton University by qualifying for the Games.

Armstrong was fourth in 3:45.75, bettering the Commonwealth standard of 3:50.00. Armstrong, a bronze medallist at last year's CAC Championships.

previously competed in the 1994 Commonwealth Games and 1995 Pan Am Games.

Meanwhile, Jarita Dill, in her first year at Seton Hall University, has lowered her personal best in the 800 metres by nearly four seconds in the past month with a time of 2:13.38 at a meet last month in Waco, Texas.