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Speedskating triumph Garbrecht takes four wins in two days
Posted: Sunday December 12, 1999 12:22 PM
INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) -- Monique Garbrecht wrapped up a triumphant weekend at the Essent ISU World Cup speedskating Sunday with back-to-back wins in the women's 500-meter and 1,000-meter events, leaving her with wins in four weekend events overall. The 31-year-old German racer went out in blistering style to set a new track record of 38.41 seconds in the 500-meter races. Russia's Svetlana Zhurova was second in 38.46, and Norwegian Edel-Therese Hoiseth took third place in 38.57. Garbrecht's win in her favorite discipline, the 1,000 meters, topped off a perfect weekend. She finished in 1 minute, 19.70 seconds, eight-hundredths of a second ahead of American Becky Sundstrom. Hoiseth came home third for the second time Sunday in 1:19.86. Two track records were set in the men's events. Russian Dimitry Dorofeev won the 500 meters in 35.81 seconds and Jan Bos of the Netherlands took the 1,000 meters in 1:10.60. In the 500-meter race, Dorofeev crossed the line seven-hundredths of a second ahead of American Casey Fitzrandolph. Olympic champion Hiroyasu Shimizu, who won Saturday's event, was third. In the 1,000-meter event, Bos had a comfortable 0.53 seconds winning margin over Germany's Michael Kuenzel. Canadian Jeremy Wotherspoon, winner of Saturday's 1,000-meters, was third. After six races in each event, Shimizu leads the World Cup standings in the 500 meters with 550 points, ahead of Wotherspoon with 465 and Fitzrandolph with 318. Wotherspoon also leads the standings in the 1,000 meters with 435 points ahead of Jakko Jan Leeuwangh, Netherlands, 428 points. Bos, with 401 points, is third. Garbrecht now has a commanding lead in both the 500-meter and 1,000-meter World Cup standings. She has 550 points in the 500 meters, ahead of Tomomi Okzaki with 369. In the 1,000 meters she has 495 points. Hoiseth is second with 410 points.
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