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Canadian Wins Gold; U.S. Figure Skater 2nd

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, Ed: Final, Sec: Sports, P. D4
Date: March 17, 1989

Copyright 1989 The San Francisco Chronicle

Paris - Canada's Kurt Browning put on a dazzling display of high-class jumping, including a trademark quadruple, to edge Chris Bowman of the United States yesterday for the men's gold medal in the World Figure Skating Championships.

Bowman, U.S. national champion from Van Nuys, began the day in third. Skating right after Browning, he did his best to catch the Canadian with a showy, flowing performance, but couldn't match Browning's jumping and had to be content with a silver.

Poland's Grzegorz Filipowski upset an error-ridden Alexandr Fadeev of the Soviet Union to take a bronze in the final performance of the night.

Browning, fifth after the compulsory figures and second entering the final, free-skating program, included seven triple jumps as well as the quadruple and earned a rapturous ovation from a noisy Canadian contingent in a half-filled arena.

Browning, 22, sixth last year and eighth in the Calgary Olympics, received seven marks of 5.9 for technical merit and four more for artistic impression.

Earlier yesterday, Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko, runners-up for the past four years, earned two perfect 6.0s to take the original-set-pattern portion of the ice-dance competition.

Susan Wynne and Joseph Druar of the United States remained in fifth place.

Another American, Jill Trenary, made a solid start in her bid for the women's title by placing second in the compulsory figures behind European champion Claudia Leistner of West Germany. The original is scheduled for today. Tomorrow's long program, which concludes the championships, counts for 50 percent of the mark.