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    Sunday, January 11, 1998

    Belmondo wins women's ski cross-country pursuit

     RAMSAU, Austria (AP) -- Stefania Belmondo of Italy registered her first World Cup victory of the cross country ski season, taking a 10-kilometer pursuit race Sunday.
     Belmondo, who will be making her fourth Olympic appearance next month, is a specialist in the 10K pursuit event, in which she won the silver medal in 1992 and the bronze medal in 1994.
     She was only 15th in the 5K classical style race Friday, the first leg of the pursuit. But in Sunday's freestyle portion, Belmondo set a punishing pace over the two laps of the Wiese trail and beat Larissa Lazutina of Russia by 11.8 seconds. Her combined time of 38 minutes, 4.4 seconds, gave Belmondo her 17th career victory in a World Cup event.
     Bente Martinsen of Norway, who won the 5K race, finished seventh to retain the lead in the World Cup standings with 531 points.
     Italy's won the men's 40K relay race, beating Sweden by one second.

    Results


     RAMSAU, Austria (AP) -- Results Sunday of World Cup cross-country ski races:
     Men
     4x10km Relay
     1. Italy (Fabio Maj, Fulvio Valbusa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Silvio Fauner), 1 hour, 32 minutes, 57 seconds.
     2. Sweden (Mathias Fredriksson, Niklas Jonsson, Per Elofsson, Torgny Mogren), 1:32:58.0.
     3. Austria (Michail Botwinow, Alois Stadlober, Christian Hoffmann, Achim Walcher) 1:32:58.2.
     4. Norway, (Frode Estil, Anders Eide, Tor Arne Hetland, Thomas Alsgaard) 1:33:18.7.
     5. Czech Republic (Lubos Buchta, Lukas Bauer, Petr Michl, Vaclav Korunka), 1:34:58.7.
     6. Russia (Sergei Tschepikov, Vladimir Legotin, Maxim Pischugin, Alexei Prokourorov), 1:35:10.3.
     7. Germany (Andreas Schluetter, Jochen Behle, Rene Sommerfeldt, Peter Schlickenrieder), 1:35:35.1.
     8. Slovakia (Ivan Batory, Martin Bajcicak, Andrej Paricka, Stanislav Jezik) 1:36:00.8.
     9. Japan (Hiroyuki Imai, Katsuhito Ebisawa, Mitsuo Horigome, Kazutoshi Nagahama), 1:36:29.7.
     10. Switzerland (Wilhelm Aschwanden, Beat Koch, Patrick Maechler, Patrick Roelli), 1:36:34.6.
     ------
     Women
     10km Freestyle Pursuit
     (5km placings in parentheses)
     1. Stefania Belmondo, Italy, 38 minutes, 4.4 seconds (15).
     2. Larissa Lazutina, Russia, 38:16.2 (2).
     3. Marit Mikelsplass, Norway, 38:41.4 (4).
     4. Irina Taranenko-Terelia, Ukraine, 38:44.5 (7).
     5. Anita Moen-Guidon, Norway, 38:51.2 (6).
     6. Nina Gavriljuk, Russia, 38:51.8 (11).
     7. Bente Martinsen, Norway, 38:53.3 (1).
     8. Svetlana Nagejkina, Russia, 38:53.7 (14).
     9. Antonina Ordina, Sweden, 38:53.9 (5).
     10. Trude Dybendahl-Hartz, Norway, 39:02.4 (8).
     11. Sophie Villeneuve, France, 39:06.1 (19).
     12. Julia Tschepalova, Russia, 39:12.9 (37).
     13. Maria Theurl, Austria, 39:13.3 (31).
     14. Manuela di Centa, Italy, 39:31.8 (25).
     15. Natalia Masalkina, Russia, 39:34.2 (18).
     World Cup Standings
     (After nine races)
     1. Bente Martinsen, Norway, 531.
     2. Larissa Lazutina, Russia, 493.
     3. Anita Moen-Guidon, Norway, 370.
     4. Stefania Belmondo, Italy, 359.
     5. Marit Mikelsplass, Norway, 340.
     6. Trude Dybendahl-Hartz, Norway, 252.
     7. Elena Vaelbe, Russia, 246.
     8. Olga Danilova, Russia, 245.
     9. Svetlana Nagejkina, Russia, 225.
     10. Irina Taranenko, Ukraine, 217.
     11. Katerina Neumannova, Czech Republic, 203.
     12. Nina Gavriljuk, Russia, 201.
     13. Sophie Villeneuve, France, 187.
     14. Antonina Ordina, Sweden, 161.
     15. Julia Tschepalova, Russia, 154.
     Also
     31. Beckie Scott, Canada, 58.