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Germans Claim Gold in Women's Biathlon VOA News 11 Feb 2002 21:10 UTC 
German athletes have claimed two medals in separate events Monday at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.
Andrea Henkel of Germany took the gold medal in the women's 15 kilometer individual biathlon and compatriot Georg Hackl won a silver in the men's luge singles.
Armin Zoeggeler of Italy took gold in the luge while Austrian Markus Prock won the bronze. In the women's biathlon, Lov Gete Poiree of Norway won the silver medal and Magdelena Forsberg of Sweden earned the bronze.
Earlier, the women's downhill skiing was postponed after high winds on the Wildflower course made racing dangerous.
The event has been rescheduled for Tuesday. Medals will be awarded later Monday in pairs figure skating, the men's biathlon, and men's snowboard halfpipe.
Sunday featured upsets in the men's downhill and the men's K-90 ski jumping as Austrian policeman Fritz Strobl and 20-year-old Simon Amman of Switzerland beat more heralded competitors to win gold.
Sunday also brought a world record as Claudia Pechstein of Germany roared to victory in the women's three-thousand-meter speed skating.
The host United States gained its first gold Sunday as 18-year-old Kelly Clark snatched victory with an almost perfect final run in the women's snowboarding halfpipe, edging out France's Doriane Vidal.
The gold medal in the Nordic combined, an event that combines ski jumping and cross-country racing, went to Finland's Samppa Lajunen, who finished first in the 15-kilometer cross-country skiing race. It was Finland's first gold in the combined in more than half a century since Heikki Hasu won in St. Moritz in 1948.
Some information for this report provided by AFP and AP.
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