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Saturday 15 February 2020

Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde celebrates at the finish
area of an alpine ski, men's World Cup Super G, in Saalbach-
Hinterglemm, Austria, Friday, Feb. 14, 2020.
Associated Press
Kilde goes top of World

Cup standings with 1st

win of season

Canada's Graeme Fish competes in the men's 10,000 meters during the world single distances
speedskating championships Friday, Feb. 14, 2020, in Kearns, Utah.
Associated Press S A A L B A C H - H I N T E R - to fourth in the standings,
GLEMM, Austria (AP) — trailing Kilde by 72 points
Fish earns speed-skating gold, world Aleksander Aamodt Kil- with three races remain-
de got his first win of the ing. Caviezel and Kjetil
record in 10,000m season Friday in a men’s Jansrud of Norway are
World Cup super-G, send-
second and third, respec-
By JOHN COON ny's Patrick Beckert earned was her first top-five finish ing the Norwegian to the tively.
Associated Press bronze in 12:47.93. after a pair of ninth-place top of both the discipline The five super-G races so
KEARNS, Utah (AP) — Fish took bronze in the 5,000 finishes in World Cup races and overall standings. far this season all had dif-
Graeme Fish broke a world meters on Thursday. Both earlier this year. Racing on a shortened ferent winners. Kilde won
record on his way to win- podium finishes are the first "I have been visualizing course with run times of the super-G season title
ning his first long track for him at a world champi- this race all season," Goetz under a minute, Kilde fin- once before, in 2016.
speed-skating world cham- onship event. said. "I visualize my 500 all ished 0.15 seconds ahead In the overall standings,
pionship. "This gold medal means a the time and it's always on of Swiss rival Mauro Ca- Kilde overtook Henrik
Fish finished in 12 minutes, little bit more to me than the line at world champi- viezel, who matched his Kristoffersen, who does
33.86 seconds Friday to the world record," Fish said. onships. I did better today career best result. Thomas not compete in down-
claim gold in the men's "It could have been done than I do in my visualiza- Dressen of Germany, who hill races. Kilde leads his
10,000 meters in the open- numerous times before I tion, so I can't really be up- won a downhill at the Norwegian teammate by
ing event of the second did it. We never really get set with that." same venue on Thursday, 79 points, with Alexis Pin-
day of the ISU World Single to skate here for a 10K. It's Americans Erin Jackson was 0.31 behind in third. turault 100 points behind
Distances Championships awesome. I can't believe and Brittany Bowe finished “Difficult race, a long day. in third. The Frenchman
at the Utah Olympic Oval. it." seventh and 13th respec- I am very satisfied now. placed sixth in Friday’s
The 22-year-old Canadian Japan's Nao Kodaira tively in the women's 500. First win of the season, race.
eclipsed the previous world earned gold in the wom- Russia's Pavel Kulizhnikov that’s fantastic,” Kilde “Pinturault and Henrik
record of 12:36.30, set by en's 500 meters with a time claimed gold in the men's said after his fourth career are very consistent in the
fellow Canadian Ted-Jan of 36.69 seconds. Russians 500 meters, finishing in win and first in 14 months. technical events so I have
Bloemen in 2015. Angelina Golikova and 33.72. Fellow Russian Ruslan “Leading the overall and to step it up in the speed
"I really wasn't focused on Olga Fatkulina claimed Murashov earned silver in super-G World Cup is nice events,” said Kilde, who
getting the world record," the other spots on the po- 33.99. Japan's Tatsuya Shin- but the race win is more finished runner-up in four
Fish said. "I just knew I need- dium. Golikova took silver, hama took bronze with a important.” races this season.
ed to do this time or that finishing in 36.74. Fatkulina time of 34.03. The jury decided in the Travis Ganong was sev-
time. I just kept going with earned bronze with a time Japan won women's team early morning hours to enth for the American’s
the flow. Once I got com- of 36.78. pursuit in 2:50.76. Nether- lower the start gate as sixth top-10 result of the
fortable, it kind of just went Kimi Goetz was the top lands and Canada finished snowfall and gusts were season. Beat Feuz, who
well for me." American finisher in the second and third respec- an issue in the upper finished runner-up in Thurs-
Bloemen joined Fish on the women's 500. Goetz took tively to round out the po- part of the Schneekristall day’s downhill, skied out
podium, taking silver with fifth with a personal-best dium. Team USA took sixth course. at the same spot where
a time of 12:45.01. Germa- time of 37.18 seconds. It in the race.q However, strong winds re- Mayer missed a gate.
mained in the following The races in the Austrian
hours and made condi- Alps replaced the Olym-
tions for the racers poten- pic test events scheduled
tially unsafe, causing sev- for Yanqing this weekend,
eral delays. but moved from China
Matthias Mayer, who led following the outbreak of
the super-G standings a virus.
before the race, missed The men’s World Cup is
a gate immediately after scheduled to continue in
a jump and failed to fin- Naeba, Japan, next week
ish. The Austrian dropped with a slalom and a GS.q