Sporting Digest: Speed Skating

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS (Hamar, Nor) Men: 1500m: 1 R Ritsma (Neth) 1min 51.60sec (world record); 2 F Zandstra (Neth) 1:52.25; 3 J O Koss (Nor) 1:52.60. 10,000m: 1 Koss 13:51.39; 2 K Storelid (Nor) 13:52.81; 3 J Radke (Pol) 13:54.32. Overall final standings: 1 Ritsma 156.201pts; 2 Koss 157.257; 3 Zandstra 157.686. Women: 1500m: 1 E Hunyady (Aut) 2min 02.31sec; 2 G Niemann (Ger) 2:02.45; 3 S Bazhanova (Rus) 2:03.79. 3,000m: 1 Niemann 4:12.25; 2 C Zijlstra (Neth) 4:17.36; 3 Bazhanova 4:17.80. 5,000m: 1 Niemann 7:14.35; 2 Zijlstra 7:23.15; 3 Bazhanova 7:26.24. Overall final standings: 1 Niemann 167.282pts; 2 Bazhanova 170.263; 3 Hunyady 170.473.