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Garbrecht captures speed skating titles
Posted: Saturday December 11, 1999 04:57 PM
INNSBRUCK, Austria (Reuters) -- Germany's Monique Garbrecht captured two speed skating World Cup triumphs Saturday on a day when all track records over 500 meters and 1,000 meters were broken at Innsbruck. Garbrecht first tied with Japan's Tomomi Okazaki for joint victory over 500m in 39.85 seconds and then clinched the 1,000m race in 1 minute 18.12 seconds ahead of Hungarian-born Austrian Emese Hunyady. Leader of the 500m overall standings on 450 points, Gabrecht also won over this distance in Warsaw last week. Despite being plagued by a sinus infection, Hunyady, a 1994 Olympic champion, posted her best result in two years. Japan's Hiroyasu Shimuzu took the men's 500m with a track record in 36.01 ahead of Canada's Jeremy Wotherspoon on the first of two competition days at the Innsbruck arena and site of the 1976 Olympics. Wotherspoon then went on to win the 1,000m in another track record of 1:11.34 in front of South Korea's Jae-Bong Choi.
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