THE 1987 PAN AMERICAN GAMES : Roundup : Twigg Pedals to 2nd Gold Medal

INDIANAPOLIS — On her way out of town, Rebecca Twigg-Whitehead stopped long enough to pick up some more gold.

Twigg-Whitehead, of Seattle, who won the women’s road race last Sunday, added the individual pursuit championship Friday night by beating Canada’s Kelly-Anne Carter in the final.

“We both ran better times than in qualifying, and I really don’t know why because the conditions weren’t any better,” said Twigg-Whitehead, who headed for a race in Grand Junction, Colo., today.

“I guess it was adrenalin.”

The Olympic silver medalist covered 3,000 meters in 3:48.48, a Major Taylor Velodrome track record. Carter was timed in 3:53.95, a Canadian national record.

Meanwhile, Mark Gorski and Ken Carpenter guaranteed the U.S. men’s team its first gold of this competition by winning in the semifinals of the men’s match sprint. The will race for the gold medal tonight.

Gorski advanced by winning a pair of photo-finish races in the best-of-three heats semifinal against Curt Harnett of Canada. He was timed in 11.17 seconds and 10.79. Carpenter, of La Mesa, Calif., defeated Gustavo Faris of Argentina, winning the first heat by disqualification because Faris failed to hold a straight line during the 200-meter sprint, and then taking the second in 11.07.

The U.S. advanced to the semifinals in team pursuit with a time of 4:30.02. However, Argentina’s time of 4:29.88 broke the track record of 4:33.67 set by the Americans earlier in the day.

Another track record fell when American Connie Paraskevin-Young reached the semifinals of the women’s match sprint with a time of 11.61.

Sara Linke won her fifth medal, and the United States swept the top two places in all five individual swimming races and also won the women’s 400-meter relay.

Linke, a 23-year-old resident of Walnut Creek, Calif., anchored the women’s 400-meter medley relay team, which set a Games record of 4 minutes 12.92 seconds. It was her third gold medal in a relay.

Silvia Poll earned her sixth medal in swimming when Costa Rica finished third in the relay. Poll, winner of three races, could add two more golds today.

Tami Bruce of San Diego and Tom Williams of St. Charles, Ill., also set Games records. Williams’ mark of 22.55 seconds came in the 50-meter freestyle, a new Pan Am event. Bruce won the women’s 800-meter freestyle in 8:34.72.

In the other swimming events, Susan Habermas of Gaithersburg, Md., won the women’s 200-meter medley in 2:18.22, Bill Stapleton won the men’s 200-meter butterfly in 2:00.70, and Andy Gill won the 100-meter backstroke in 56.56.

U.S. freestyle wrestler Ken Chertow of Huntington, W. Va., was disqualified for failing to show up on time for a match with Ecuador’s Galo Legarda.

Cuban mat chairman Orestes Molina declared the forfeit. U.S. wrestling officials immediately filed a protest, but the International Amateur Wrestling Federation (FILA) turned it down.

“Chertow was in the back warming up, going on the announcer’s call,” said J. Robinson, a U.S. coach. “The mat chairman, instead of going to the announcer so the calls could be made in the prescribed manner, went to the head FILA official, who bypassed the announcer.”

Chertow, 20, wrestling in the 125 1/2-pound category, did not appear for the match announcement or the second call. Referee Rogelio Leanos of Mexico was about to raise Legarda’s hand in victory when Chertow came dashing up the steps and onto the mat, his shoelaces flying. He paused to tie his shoes and Molina disqualified him.

Catcher Mike Singer of Stockton, Calif., went 3 for 4 and drove in two runs, and Pete Sandman of Sioux City, Iowa, pitched a six-hitter as the undefeated U.S. men’s softball team won its sixth game by trouncing the Dominican Republic, 10-2.

Sandman, who struck out five, held the Dominican Republic (2-4) scoreless until the seventh when Ramon Caraballo doubled home one run and another run scored on a grounder by Cesar Sosa.

Bruce Meredith, who received the first Pan American Games medal ever awarded to the U.S. Virgin Islands, had the silver medal taken away by the International Shooting Union.

The international governing body of shooting sports ruled that Meredith, a former member of the U.S. shooting team, was ineligible to compete for the Virgin Islands. He competed for the U.S. team last year and international rules require that he not compete for another team in international competition for two years.

Meredith won the silver in men’s free rifle (prone) Thursday. Argentina protested his participation.

Twin sisters Karen and Sarah Josephson displayed a near-perfect ballet in winning the gold medal for duet synchronized swimming.

The 23-year-olds from Concord, Calif., totaled 192.12 points, the second-highest winning score in Pan Am history.

Roller skaters Skip Clinton, Lauderhill, Fla., and Kevin Carroll, Clearwater, Fla., swept the top two places in the men’s figure skating.

MEDAL STANDINGS

G S B Tot United States 98 77 57 232 Canada 14 29 55 98 Cuba 46 29 21 96 Brazil 9 9 10 28 Argentina 11 4 11 26 Colombia 4 7 12 23 Venezuela 2 8 8 18 Mexico 5 4 4 13 Costa Rica 3 2 5 10 Puerto Rico 2 3 4 9 Jamaica 1 3 4 8 Dom. Republic 0 1 6 7 Peru 0 2 3 5 Bahamas 0 2 2 4 Ecuador 0 1 3 4 Panama 0 3 0 3 Nicaragua 0 0 3 3 Chile 0 0 3 3 Suriname 1 0 1 2 Uruguay 0 2 0 2 Trinidad 0 1 1 2 Paraguay 1 0 0 1 Bermuda 0 0 1 1 Honduras 0 0 1 1 Net. Antilles 0 0 1 1