Sporting Digest: Ice Skating

WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS (Chiba, Japan) Women's qualifying round (First 12 in each group advance to main event): Group A: 1 Y Sato (Japan) 1.0pts; 2 S Bonaly (Fr) 2.0; 3 T Szewczenko (Ger) 3.0; 4 O Markova (Rus) 4.0; 5 M Kwan (US) 5.0; 6 E Liashenko (Ukr) 6.0; 7 S Humphreys (Can) 7.0; 8 L Ivanova (Ukr) 8.0; 9 V Dimitrova (Bul) 9.0; 10 L Kulovana (Cz Rep) 10.0; 11 C von Saher (GB) 11.0; 12 I Zayets (Ukr) 12.0. Group B: 1 J Chouinard (Can) 1.0; 2 Chen Lu (Ch) 2.0; 3 M Kielmann (Ger) 3.0; 4 M Kajas (Fin) 4.0; 5 K Czako (Hung) 5.0; 6 R Inoue (Japan) 6.0; 7 A Rechnio (Pol) 7.0; 8 T Malinina (Uzbek) 8.0; 9 N Krieg (Swit) 9.0; 10 M-P Leray (Fr) 10.0; 11 A S Claeys (Bel) 11.0; 12 Ying Liu (Ch) 12.0.