Sporting Digest: Ice Skating

WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS (Chiba, Japan): Pairs final: 1 E Shishkova and V Naumov (Rus) 1.5pts; 2 I Brasseur and L Eisler (Can) 3.0; 3 M Eltsova and A Bushkov (Rus) 4.5; 4 M Wotzel and I Steuer (Ger) 6.5; 5 R Kovarikova and R Novotny (Cz Rep) 7.0; 6 J Meno and T Sand (US) 11.0; 7 J Bereznaja and O Sliachkov (Lat) 11.5; 8 M Petrova and A Sikharulidze (Rus) 12.0; 9 P Schwarz and A Koenig (Ger) 12.5; 10 D and S Carr (Aus) 15.0. Did not qualify: D Mednick and J Briggs (GB). Men's short programme: 1 E Stojko (Can) 0.5pts; 2 P Candeloro (Fr) 1.0; 3 V Zagorodniuk (Ukr) 1.5; 4 A Urmanov (Rus) 2.0; 5 E Millot (Fr) 2.5; 6 A Nielsen (US) 3.0; 7 S Cousins (GB) 3.5; 8 S Davis (US) 4.0; 9 M Kagiyama (Japan) 4.5; 10 I Pashkevich (Rus) 5.0.