European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 3, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday March 3, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 25 Parisien rebounds with win sundsvall Sweden apr Julie Parisien of the United states put together two runs of aggressive and precise skiing monday and won the women a world cup slalom finale. Vreni Schneider of Switzerland came from 14th after the first run to finish fifth and clinched her third world cup slalom title in the last four seasons. She also won it in 1989 and 1990. Parisien a 21-year-old from Auburn Maine had a combined time of 1 minute 19.98 seconds Down the course overlooking this Baltic sea City. She clocked the fastest times in both runs flagged with 54 and 50 Gates and beat runner up Pernilla Wiberg of Sweden by More than half a second. Wiberg the olympic giant slalom Champion had a two run total of 1 20.54. Third went to Karin Buder of Austria in 1 21.26 and fourth to her teammate Anita Wachter in 1 21.39. Parisien who scored her first world cup Victory in the giant slalom finale last season in Waterville Valley n.h., also led the olympic slalom in Meribel France last month after the first run. But she fell victim to the pressure and wound up fourth. A that kind of shattered my Confidence a Little bit so this was a much needed race to win a she said. Wiberg who had a terrific weekend in Norway winning the is Friday and placing second in the slalom said Parisien a skied awfully Well in both runs and there was nothing i could do about Petra Kronberger of Austria the two time defending world cup Overall Champion and the olympic slalom Winner finished seventh just .2 seconds behind Spain a Blanca Fernandez Ochoa and kept her Lead Over Schneider in the Point standings. Kronberger has 942 Points Schneider 902 and Carole Merle of France who did no Trace Here has 764. Wiberg moved into fourth with 749, three More than the injured Sabine Ginther of Austria. Stirling Martin car 22 ducks Low to avoid a tangle Between boding Brothers Geoff 15 and Brett 26 sunday in Rockingham . Elliott fends off Allison a of Bill Elliott a sundays Goodw Carolina motor by Mike Harris a motor sports writer Rockingham . The Bright red Budweiser Ford was As clean and unmarked in Victory Circle As if it had just come out of a garage. That was proof Enous big Edge in winning Rench 500 at North Speedway. Twas a two Man Battle until just past the Halfway Mark with Daytona 500 Winner Davey Allison in another thunderbird taking turns in the Lead with Elliott. Then the banging and bumping that had brought out seven caution flags in the first 282 laps of the 492-Lap race ended giving Elliott 210 laps of uninterrupted Green Flag racing and a runaway Victory. A Davey would be be Good for 40 or 50 laps after pit stops then id get a Good run on him and i d be Able to open up a Lead a Elliott said. A i knew if the caution Flag did no to come out there at the end we d be in Good Good wrench 500 he pulled away steadily and won by 12.75 seconds almost a half Lap on the one mile Oval. That gave Elliott his 35th career Victory in his 350th Winston cup Start and ended a dry spell that had lasted since he won the Pepsi 400 last july at Daytona. But this Victory was special for another reason a it was his first for Junior Johnson the former Hall of Fame Driver who has been Given 132 victories and six series titles by an array of great Drivers since he became a team owner. A i told Bill at Talladega the first of last year that if head come Over with us wed make sure he had the equipment and stuff. All head have to do was drive it. Wed take care of the rest of it. He a done his Job and we re going to keep on trying to do Johnson said. That sounded like heaven to Elliott who was in charge of just about everything a running the team helping with the mechanical work setting up the Chassis and driving a while competing for the family run Melling racing team for the last decade. Allison who still leads the Winston cup Point standings noted that Elliott is now just 88 Points behind in. Seventh despite crashing out of the opener at Daytona. A we Hung in there even though we weren to Tough enough to do much with Bill a Allison said. A a they re going to be Tough All year. In a just glad we got the jump on Mem in Points right Elliott led 260 laps including the final 213, on the Way to a race record average of 126.125 Mph breaking the Mark of 124.083 set last March by Kyle Petty and barely missing the track record of 127.292 by Allison last october. Allison led 190 of the first 279 trips around the Rockingham Oval. Harry Gant finished third the Only other Driver on the Lead Lap. Michael Waltrip was fourth followed by Ken Frosh sets world freestyle Mark by the associated press Indianapolis a Jenny Thompson did what no american had done for 61 years a set the world record in the women a 100-meter freestyle. Then she worried about getting what she really wanted a a spot on the . Olympic swimming team. She got it sunday night following her record race in the morning preliminaries of the . Olympic trials. The Stanford freshman set the Mark with a time of 54.48 seconds. She came Back to win the finals in 54.63, also faster than the previous record of 54.73 set by Kristin Otto while swimming for East Germany in 1986. Thompson of Dover n.h., was fourth after 50 meters in the finals in 26.79, three hundredths of a second faster than her preliminary time. She rallied in the final 50 meters and edged runner up Nicole Haislett who finished in 55.15. 1 he top two in each event make the olympic team.. Swim trials the first four finishers among the eight finalists a Thompson Haislett Ashley Tappin and two time olympian Dara Torres a make up the 400-meter freestyle relay team for the summer games in Barcelona. The last american to hold the record was Helene Madison with a time of 1 06.6 in 1931. In sunday nights three other finals a three time olympic Champ Janet Evans failed to qualify in the 400-meter individual Medley finishing third behind summer Sanders and Erika Hansen. Evans also is entered in the 200, 400, and 800 free styles. She was the 1988 Gold medallist in the 400 and 800 freestyles and 400 individual Medley and holds the world record in the 400 and 800 freestyle. A Nelson Diebel a Princeton Sophomore set an american record of 1 01.40 in the 100-meter breast stroke finals bettering the Mark of 1 01.49 he set in the preliminaries. Hans Dersch was second. Steve Lundqu list set the old Mark of 1 01.65 at the 1984 olympics. A Joe Hudepohl won the 200-meter freestyle in 1 48.73. The second qualifier was Doug Gjertsen. The next two finishers a Mel Stewart and Scott Jaffe a join the top two on the 800 freestyle relay record Falls Anita Nall the american record Holder in the women a 200-meter breast Oke shattered the world record in that event monday during a preliminary heat at the . Olympic swimming trials. Nall a 15-year-old High school Sophomore from Towson md., was clocked at 2 minutes 25.92 seconds on the fourth and final heat of the 200 trials. She broke her american record of 2 27.08 set at the . Open last year and the world record of 2 26.71 by East Germany a Silke Hoerner in the 1988 olympics. Treacy fights off cramps wins . Marathon _. A a. I Orlim Iai f Quot la run in fill i los Angeles a Ireland a John Treacy fought Back leg cramps to win the los Angeles Marathon sunday in 2 hours 12 minutes and 29 seconds. Two runners from the Commonwealth of Independent states Madina Biltagi Rova and ram Ilia Burang Lova finished l2 in the women a Competition with both smashing the 2 29 38 course record set last year. Bik Bagirova from Bye Lorus Sia was timed in 2 26 23, and Burang Lova from Russia finished in 2 28 12. It was the first major Marathon win for Treacy the 1984 olympic Silver medallist who is preparing for his fourth olympics venture in Barcelona. Although he had predicted that fall of the 2 10 19 course record set by Mexico a Martin Mondragon Treacy just tried for Victory the menus runner up was Jos Eildo Rocha 27, of Brazil who finished in 2 12 54. Third went to new zealand a Peter Renner 32, who finished in 2 14 13. Bik Bagirova 27, the youngest of seven elite women from the Commonwealth of Independent states toppled Cathy of Briens course record set last year. Kerstin Pressler of Germany finished third with 2 29 40. Runners had expected records to fall sunday and weather was overcast with temperatures in the 60s. The elite winners get $20,000 each a car and a Gold watch. Second place is Worth $15,000 and third $ 10,00t�. A $10,000 time Bonus also is awarded for breaking a course record
