Winter Games '94 'Lillehammer'

Medals · Figure Skating The women's figure-skating competition finally moved onto the ice, and America's Nancy Kerrigan won the technical program with a serene and elegant performance. The gold medal will be decided by Friday's free skate. Judges ranked Kerrigan first, followed by Ukraine's Oksana Baiul and Surya Bonaly of France. U.S. skater Tonya Harding was 10th, all but out of contention. Katarina Witt of Germany, the 1984-88 gold-medal winner, was sixth. · Speedskating American speedskater Bonnie Blair won a gold medal in the 1,000 meters -- her fifth gold in four Winter Games. That makes her the most successful U.S. Olympic woman ever and the most decorated American Winter Olympian of all time. Blair, 30, clocked 1 minute, 18.74 seconds. Germany's Anke Baier won the silver and China's Ye Qiaobo took the bronze. · Giant slalom Markus Wasmeier of Germany won the men's giant slalom with a time of 2 minutes, 52.46 seconds. Wasmeier won the super-giant slalom last week. Urs Kaelin of Switzerland was second in 2:52.48 and Christian Mayer of Austria was third in 2:52.58. Alberto Tomba of Italy, who won the event in 1988 and 1992 Games, missed a gate in his second run and did not finish. · Biathlon Sergei Tchepikov of Russia won the gold in the men's 10-kilometer biathlon sprint. Ricco Gross of Germany finished second for the silver. Myriam Bedard of Canada won her second gold medal of the Winter Games in the women's 7.5-kilometer biathlon in 26 minutes, 8.8 seconds. It was one of the closest finishes ever in the event. Svetlana Paramygina of Belarus was second, 1.1 seconds back, and Valentyna Tserbe of Ukraine was third, 1.2 seconds back. · Nordic combined Japan took a commanding lead over Norway in the ski-jumping portion of the Nordic combined. The Japanese will start with a 5-minute, 7-second lead in today's 30-kilometer cross-country relay, which decides the gold medal. · Hockey quarterfinals Canada 3, Czech Republic 2, OT Finland 6, United States 1 Sweden 3, Germany 0 Russia 3, Slovakia 2, OT France plays Italy for ninth place today, and Austria battles Norway for 11th. In consolation play, the Czech Republic faces the United States and Germany takes on Slovakia. Semifinal play starts tomorrow, with Finland playing Canada, Russia vs. Sweden.