Sport in Short: Ice Skating

EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS (Helsinki, Fin): Women's technical programme: 1 S Bonaly (Fr) 0.5 pts; 2 M Kielmann (Ger) 1.0; 3 O Baiul (Ukr) 1.5; 4 T Szewczenko (Ger) 2.0; 5 M Butyrskaya (Rus) 2.5; 6 K Czako (Hung) 3.0; 7 A S Claeys (Bel) 3.5; 8 Z Szwed (Pol) 4.0; 9 S Lang (Ger) 4.5; 10 O Markova (Rus) 5.0; 11 A Lepina (Lat) 5.5; 12 L Kulovana (Cz Rep) 6.0; 13 M-P Leray (Fr) 6.5; 14 I Zemanova (Cz Rep) 7.0; 15 C Von Saher (GB) 7.5. Did not qualify: E Warrington (GB).

Pairs technical programme: 1 E Shishkova and V Naumov (Rus) 0.5; 2 M Eltsova and A Bushkov (Rus) 1.0; 3 M Woetzel and I Stueur (Ger) 1.5; 4 P Schwarz and A Konig (Ger) 2.0; 5 R Kovarikova and R Novotny (Cz Rep) 2.5; 6 L Monod and C Monod (Swit) 3.0; 7 E Tobyash and S Smirnov (Rus) 3.5; 8 J Bereznaja and O Slakchov (Lat) 4.0; 9 S Pristav and V Tkachenko (Ukr) 4.5; 10 B Zielinska and M Siudek (Pol) 5.0. GB: 12 J Soames and J Jenkins (GB) 6.0; 15 V Pearce and C Shorten (GB) 7.5.