Short track-Dutch skater Velzeboer wins women 1000 metres, Fontana fourth

MILAN, Feb 16 : Dutch skater Xandra Velzeboer won the women's short track 1000 metres race on Monday, claiming her second individual gold at the Milan Cortina Olympics and extending the Netherlands' dominance of the competition.

Canada's Courtney Sarault came second and South Korea's Kim Gil-li took the bronze. Italy's Arianna Fontana finished fourth, missing out for now on what would be an Italian record 14th Olympic medal.

(Francesca Landini and Gianluca Semeraro, editing by Keith Weir)