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Winter Sports

From Staff and Wire Reports

Dan Jansen (500 meters) and Igor Zhelezovsky of Belarus (1,000) won the men’s races, and China’s Ye Qiaobo won the women’s 500-meter race in the Speed Skating World Cup at Karuizawa, Japan.

Jansen beat Zhelezovsky in the men’s 500-meter race by 0.12 seconds, in 37.12. Zhelezovsky took the 1,000-meter race for the second consecutive day in 1:15.42.

In the women’s competition, Ye won the 500 for the second consecutive day in 40.60 seconds, beating Bonnie Blair.

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