Sporting Digest: Speed Skating
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS (Calgary, Can, winners) Men: 1,000m: 1 K Scott (Can) 1min 12.69sec; 2 S Klevchenja (Rus) 1:12.76; 3 I Zhelezovsky (Belarus) 1:12.79. Final men's overall standings: 1 Jansen 144.815pts; 2 Klevchenja 145.315; 3 Inoue 145.670. Women 1,000m: 1 Blair 1min 19.11sec; 2 A Hauck (Ger) 1:19.29; 3 M Garbrecht (Ger) 1:19.44. Final women's overall standings: 1 Blair 157.405pts (world record); 2 Hauck 159.020; 3 Xu Rui Hong 159.080.
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