Sporting Digest: Speed Skating

MEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (Gothenburg, Swe): 500m: 1 I Postma (Neth) 38.39sec; 2 H Noake (Japan) 38.50; 3 N Kotake (Japan) 38.90. 1500m: 1 J O Koss (Nor) 1min 59.68sec; 2 A Anufrienko (Rus) 2:0.76; 3 Noake 2:0.95. 5,000m: 1 K Storelid (Nor) 7min 11.63sec; 2 Koss 7:14.21; 3 J Radke (Pol) 7:16.05. 10,000m: 1 Koss 14:49.58; 2 Storelid 14:51.68; 3 Postma 14:54.93. Overall: 1 Koss 166.233pts; 2 Postma 168.457; 3 Ritsma 168.567.

WOMEN'S WORLD CUP (Inzell, Ger): 500m: 1 B Blair (US) 39.72sec; 2 F Schenk (Ger) 39.90; 3 S Auch (Can) 40.37. 1500m: 1 E Huyady (Aut) 2:04.90; 2 L Prokascheva (Kaz) 2:06.08; 3 G Niemann (Ger) 2:06.38. 3,000m: 1 G Niemann (Ger) 4min 13.96sec; 2 Prokasheva 4:19.63; 3 S Bashanova (Rus) 4:20.71.