LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- Alan Alborn of Alaska won the national 120-meter ski jumping championship Saturday afternoon at the Olympic Jumping Complex.
Alborn, from Anchorage, landed jumps of 120.9 and 129.1 meters for a total of 250 meters to win the title.Bredan Doran, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., finished second with jumps of 115.1 and 126.4 meters for a total of 241.5. Doran won the KeyBank New Year's ski jump competition in Lake Placid last month.
Todd Lodwick, also of Steamboat Springs, took home the bronze medal. Lodwick had jumps of 98.5 and 118.5 meters for a total of 217.
Competition in the 90-meter ski jump and the nordic combined begin Sunday.
SPEEDSKATING: At Hamar, Norway, Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann of Germany skated the second fastest 3,000-meter race ever and took the overall lead Saturday in the World All-Around Speedskating Championships.
Competing in the Olympic Viking Ship hall, Niemann-Stirnemann finished in 4 minutes, 2.1 seconds, only 0.35 off her own world record.
Rintje Ritsma of the Netherlands took the lead among the men, with Japan's Hiroyuki Noake in second.
Niemann-Stirnemann, winner of a total of 13 World Championship titles in her career, earlier finished seventh in the opening 500 meters. After two of four races, she leads the overall standings with 80,675 points.
Annamarie Thomas of the Netherlands won the 500 in 39.82, just four hundredths of a second ahead of second-place finisher Jennifer Rodriguez of Miami.