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Shanghai, China • Salt Lake City's Katherine Reutter took the 1,000 meters at the World Cup short-track speedskating event Sunday ahead of China's Li Jianrou and Yui Sakai of Japan.
Arianna Fontana of Italy won the women's 500 and Canada's Charles Hamelin won the men's 500 meters. Hamelin claimed his fourth gold medal this season after clocking 40.905 seconds to beat Britain's Jon Eley (41.054) and Liang Wenhoa of China.
Kwak Yoon-gy of South Korea won the men's 1,000, finishing in 1:25.300 to beat Canada's Olivier Jean (1:25.451) and Noh Jinkyu of South Korea.
China took the relay gold ahead of Canada and Britain after South Korea was penalized and eliminated.
Park City's Holcomb takes 6th
Park City's Steven Holcomb guided USA 1 to a sixth-place finish Sunday in the Bobsled World Cup at La Plagne, France. Along with teammates Justin Olsen, Steven Langton and Curtis Tomasevicz, Holcomb posted a time of 1 minute, 57.32 seconds. The Germany 3 team won with a time of 1:57.00.
Other events
Cross-country skiing • Alaska's Kikkan Randall, born in Salt Lake City, won her second straight freestyle sprint in cross-country skiing's World Cup on Sunday in Davos, Switzerland, and Russia's Alexey Petukhov won the men's race.
Randall got her fifth career World Cup victory by completing the 1.5-kilometer course in 3 minutes, 2.4 seconds. Natalia Matveeva of Russia trailed Randall by 1.7 seconds. Randall, who won last weekend in Duesseldorf, Germany, climbed to third in the overall standings.
Ski jumping • Richard Freitag won a World Cup ski jumping event Sunday in Harrachov, Czech Republic, for his first career victory. The 20-year-old German took the lead after the first jump of 129.0 meters and sealed the win with the longest jump of the day — 137.5 meters — in the final round for a combined 292.4 points on the large hill. Thomas Morgenstern of Austria finished second with 283.9 points for his jumps of 129.5 and 136.0 meters and another German, Severin Freund, was third.
Nordic combined • Olympic and world champion Jason Lamy Chappuis of France won a Nordic combined World Cup event Sunday in Ramsau, Austria, to overtake Germany's Tino Edelmann at the top of the standings.
Biathlon • Norway won the opening men's and women's relay races of the biathlon World Cup season on Sunday.