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WINTER SPORTS ROUNDUP : Blair Wins 1,000, Second Overall

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From Associated Press

Bonnie Blair of Champaign, Ill., won the women’s 1,000 meters Sunday at the world sprint speed skating championships at Tromsoe, Norway, and fell just short of winning the overall title, claimed by Angela Hauck of East Germany.

Ki Tae Ba of South Korea won the men’s overall title without winning any of the four races, beating the Soviet Union’s Andre Bakhvalov, 154.000 points to 154.420.

Blair finished with 169.395 total points to 169.090 for Hauck, who won both 500-meter events.

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A fourth-place finish in Saturday’s 1,000 meters, won by Christine Aaftink of the Netherlands, cost Blair the sprint championship.

Diana Golden, a 26-year-old Massachusetts skier who lost her leg to cancer when she was 13, won the women’s super-G slalom race at the 1990 First Interstate Bank World Disabled Ski Championships at Winter Park, Colo.

Golden, of Lincoln, Mass., skiing in the LW-2 classification for women who have the use of only one leg and using an outrigger type of ski pole, ran the 1,182-meter course in one minute, 23.22 seconds to edge Cathy Gentile, 27, of Torrance, who skied the course in 1:24.74.

East Germany used its superior depth to win the team competition at the world luge championships at Calgary.

The East Germans came in second in the men’s singles, women’s singles and the doubles events to end up with a combined total of 131 points. Italy was second with 119 and the Soviet Union next with 114.

Gabi Kohlisch, who won the women’s singles event Saturday for East Germany, finished second to the Soviet Union’s Julia Antipova in Sunday’s race for the team competition.

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East German Jens Muller finished second behind Austria’s Markus Frock in the men’s race, and the East German doubles team of Jorg Hoffmann and Jochen Pietzsch came in second behind Italy’s Hansjorg Raffl and Norbert Huber.

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