Sporting Digest: Ice Skating

PEOPLES PHONE BRITISH CHAMPIONSHIPS (Basingstoke) Junior men free programme: 1 N Wilson (Dundonald) 1.0pts; 2 S Bell (Solihull) 2.0; 3 A Garlick (Swindon) 3.0. Overall: 1 Wilson 1.5; 2 Bell (Solihull) 3.0; 3 Garlick 4.5. Junior women free programme: 1 E Foster (Dundonald) 1.0; 2 Z Jones (Swindon) 2.0; 3 T Sear (Oxford) 3.0. Overall: 1 Jones 3.0; 2 Foster 3.5; 3 Sear 3.5. Junior pairs free programme: 1 N Thomas and D Thomas (Chelsmford) 1.0; 2 V Beckett and B Lock (Chelmsford) 2.0; 3 H Archer and N Simmons (Billingham) 3.0. Overall: 1 Thomas and Thomas 1.5; 2 Beckett and Lock 3.5; 3 Archer and Simmons 4.0.

NHK TROPHY (Chiba, Japan) Men: Individual final: 1 P Candeloro (Fr) 2.5 factored placement; 2 V Zagorondniuk (Ukr) 3.0; 3 A Urmanov (Rus) 4.5; 4 M Kagiyama (Japan) 5.0; 5 C Gheorghe (Rom) 7.5. Women: Individual final: 1 S Bonaly (Fr) 2.5; 2 Y Sato (Japan) 3.5; 3 Chen Lu (Ch) 4.0; 4 T Harding (US) 7.5; 5 K Koiwai (Japan) 8.0. Pairs final: 1 I Brasseur and L Eisler (Can) 1.5; 2 R Kovarikova and R Novotny (Cz Rep) 3.0; 3 Y Kawasaki and A Tikhonov (Japan) 4.5; 4 O Kazakova and D Sukhanov (Rus) 6.5; 5 J Sale and J Turner (Can) 8.0. Ice dance final: 1 O Gritschuk and E Platov (Rus) 2.0; 2 I Romanova and I Yaroshenko (Ukr) 4.0; 3 A Stergiadu and J Razguliaev (Uzbek) 6.4; 4 T Navka and S Gezalian (Bela) 7.6.