Bormio (Sindrio), 20 February (LaPresse) – Antoniette Rijpma-de Jong won the gold medal in the women's 1,500m speed skating event at the Milan-Cortina Games. The Dutch athlete finished with a time of 1:54.09, 6 hundredths of a second ahead of Norway's Ratke Wiklund, who took silver. Bronze went to Canada's Valerie Maltais. Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida finished thirteenth with a time of 2:42.