Bonaly Wins, Witt Advances

Katarina Witt made the German team for next month’s Lillehammer Olympics and France’s Surya Bonaly beat Oksana Baiul of Ukraine to retain her title at the European Figure Skating Championships in Copenhagen on Saturday.

Bonaly used her technical ability to win her fourth consecutive women’s title over Baiul, who lacked a combination jump. Bonaly highlighted her program with a triple salchow-triple toe loop.

Witt, the 1984 and 1988 Olympic champion, held off Marina Kielmann in the battle for the German Olympic spot behind Tanja Szewczenko. Szewczenko wound up fifth, with Russians Olga Markova and Maria Butryrskaja third and fourth, respectively. Witt finished eighth.

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Bonnie Blair set a track record in winning the 1,000 meters, completing a four-race sweep of the World Cup Sprints in Milwaukee. Blair won in 1 minute 20.24 seconds. Dan Jansen of West Allis, Wis., won the 1,000 meters in 1:14.01. . . . William Besse of Switzerland earned his first World Cup victory of the season at Wengen, Switzerland, edging Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg and Peter Rungaldier of Italy in a downhill. . . . Urska Hrovat of Slovenia upset Vreni Schneider of Switzerland at Maribor, Slovenia, in a World Cup slalom race.

Basketball

The Denver Nuggets have received permission from the Clippers to talk with Danny Manning about whether he would agree to sign a long-term contract if Denver traded for him. Manning’s agent, Ron Grinker, was quoted in the Rocky Mountain News as saying that Manning looks at Denver “very favorably.” And Nugget General Manager Bernie Bickerstaff said the team has “definite interest.”

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The Lakers signed free-agent guard Reggie Jordan to a 10-day contract. Jordan, 25, played at New Mexico State and has played the last two-plus seasons in the Continental Basketball Assn.

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Magic Johnson will take his touring basketball team to Indonesia at the end of February as scheduled despite a claim by the nation’s director general of immigration that the former Laker superstar will be kept out because he has the virus that causes AIDS, Johnson’s agent said.

Track and Field

Marty Liquori, 44, and Kip Keino, 54, finished the Miami Mile’s first Legends race in a dead heat in 5 minutes 23.6 seconds.

In the men’s elite mile, Edgar Martins de Oliviera of Brazil won in 4:01. Angela Chalmers of Canada, a bronze medalist at the 1992 Olympics, won the women’s division in 4:33.9.

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American indoor record-holders Hollis Conway and Lance Deal set meet records at the Commonwealth Invitational at Boston.

Conway broke the record on his third high jump attempt, going 7 feet 6 1/2 inches. In the men’s 35-pound weight, Deal set a meet record with a toss of 78-2 1/4 inches.

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Allen Johnson defeated Roger Kingdom in the 55-meter hurdles in 7.03 seconds and Bill Payne won the pole vault at 18 feet 8 1/4 inches in the USAir Invitational at Johnson City, Tenn.

Miscellany

The New Zealand yacht Endeavor edged past Tokio in the last few minutes of the third leg of the Whitbread Round the World challenge and won the 3,673-nautical-mile race by about 300 yards at Auckland, New Zealand.

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The Norwegian team of Jan Kvalheim and Bjorn Maaseide upset Brazilians Franco Neto and Roberto Lopes da Costa, 12-2, to win the men’s beach volleyball title at Miami Beach, Fla.

The Brazilian team of Maria Salgado and Roseli Timm defeated Americans Barbra Fontana and Lori Kotas, 12-3, 12-14, 16-14, to win the women’s title.

Names in the News

John John Molina of Puerto Rico retained the International Boxing Federation super-featherweight title when he stopped Welshman Floyd Havard after six rounds at Cardiff, Wales. . . . Jamie Astaphan, 48, the doctor who gave Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson the steroids that cost him an Olympic gold medal, has been accused in a federal indictment of selling illegal steroids in Florida. . . . Doug Williams, who quarterbacked the Washington Redskins to victory in Super Bowl XXII, has been hired as an assistant football coach at Navy. . . . Bryan Maxwell, coach of the Spokane Chiefs, resigned Saturday, saying the job with the Western Hockey League team was no longer fun.