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Sports Digest

Source: San Francisco Chronicle, Ed: Final, Sec: Sports, P. D3
Date: March 15, 1991

Copyright 1991 The San Francisco Chronicle

On a night of more quadruple jumps than in all previous world championships, it seemed ironic that Canada's Kurt Browning -- the first man to land it in competition -- should win the title without doing one.

The Canadian backed out of a quad but successfully completed three triple-triple combinations in a stunning jumping performance in Munich, Germany, that gave him the men's title yesterday in the World Figure Skating Championships. Browning, 24, became the first man to win three straight titles since Scott Hamilton of the United States did it from 1981-84.

Two-time European champion Viktor Petrenko of the Soviet Union, who led going into the free skate, missed a triple jump. Petrenko, last year's runner-up, scaled down his only triple-triple combination to a triple-double and had to settle for a silver medal. He landed six triples cleanly.

U.S. national champion Todd Eldredge clinched the bronze with a program that included eight triples, ahead of Petr Barna of Czechoslovakia and American Christopher Bowman.