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UPDATED: 11:00, November 29, 2004
China adds two golds at World Cup short track speedskating
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China won two more gold medals in the women's 3,000-meter relay and 3,000m individual race on November 28, the last day of the World Cup short track speed skating event held in Madison, Wisconsin.

Wang Meng beat Kim Hyo-Jung of the Uninted States to win the 3,000m in 5 minutes 35.946 seconds. Then she teamed with Yang Yang (A), Cheng Xiaolei and Fu Tianyu to take the women's 3,000m relay with a time of 4:16.722, China's fourth gold medal this time.

Yang (A) won the women's 500m and 1,500m races on Friday and Saturday.

But it was American Apolo Anton Ohno who won two more races Sunday to become the biggest winner of the U.S stop.

Ohno won the 1,000m in 1:26.914 and then captured the 3,000m in5:13.504. He originally placed second in the longer race but tookthe gold after winner Mathieu Turcotte of Canada was disqualified for impeding another skater.

Ohno increased his World Cup medal count this season to 13. Healso took gold in the 1,500m and silver in the 500m this weekend.

Kim Hyo-Jung took the 1,000m gold in 1:33.593, her first World Cup medal. Canada took the men's 5,000m relay in 6:49.462, followed by China.


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