
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, March 11, 1990                   TAG: 9003112750
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C13   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: From Associated Press reports
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TRENARY WINS WORLD SKATING TITLE

Jill Trenary repeated her performance in the U.S. championships with a strong free skate Saturday at Halifax, Nova Scotia, winning the World Figure Skating Championships title for the first time.

Trenary didn't win the free skate, which, as expected, went to Midori Ito of Japan, the 1989 champion. Ito received three perfect 6.0s for technical merit, something few women ever receive, though Ito had five of them last year, when she became the first woman to land a triple axel in competition.

But Ito was 10th in compulsories, which Trenary won. Ito, who hit six triple jumps, including the axel, needed to beat Trenary, 21, of Colorado Springs, Colo., by two places in the long program.

Ito's hopes rested with American Kristi Yamaguchi, the only other free skater likely to slip between herself and Trenary. But Yamaguchi fell twice in an uninspired routine and was fourth overall, a charitable third in the free skate.

Another American, Holly Cook of Bountiful, Utah, took the bronze by finishing fourth in Saturday's program. Cook was a surprise qualifier for the U.S. team and a bigger surprise as a medalist.

She couldn't stop jumping around when she left the ice and she couldn't stop crying as she skated to the medals stand to join Trenary and Ito.

by CNB