Summary Mo Tae-bum and Lee Sang-hwa retained their 500-meter titles at speedskating world championships.
SOCHI (AP) - Tae-bum took the men s crown at the season-ending event, clocking a combined 69.76 seconds over the two single distance races to edge Japan s Joji Kato by six hundredths of a second. World sprint champion Jan Smeekens of the Netherlands, who clocked the fastest time of 34.80 seconds in the first heat, finished fifth in the second heat for a combined third.
In the women s event, Sang-hwa dominated both of her heats to win in a combined time of 75.34 seconds. Chinese sprinter Wang Beixing was 0.69 seconds behind in second. Russia s Olga Fatkulina edged out four-time champion Jenny Wolf of Germany by 0.05 seconds to finish in 76.08 for third.
