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Canada's Denny Morrison competes during the men's 1000-metre ISU World Cup Final in Erfurt, Germany.FABRIZIO BENSCH/Reuters

Denny Morrison won gold in the men's 1,500 metre and Laurent Dubreuil took silver in the men's 500 on Sunday at the long-track speed skating World Cup Final.

Morrison and Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin were also crowned season champions in their respective World Cup disciplines, the men's 1500 and the women's mass start, while Dubreuil finished second in the 500 standings for the season.

Morrison, from Fort St. John, B.C., won gold in the men's 1,000 on Saturday and captured Sunday's race in one minute, 46.15 seconds, in what was the last meet of the season.

Heather Richardson clinched the women's overall speed skating World Cup title with a fourth-place finish in the mass start. The American finished with 1,195 points in the overall standings, 99 more than Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic, who won the race in 9:1.76.

Blondin placed eighth and finished with 466 points.

Ruslan Murashov of Russia won the second men's 500 of the weekend, clocking 34.97 to edge both Dubreuil of Levis, Que., and Michel Mulder of the Netherlands by 0.13.

Big day for Austrians:

Meribel, France – Anna Fenninger overcame her nerves and a strong challenge from Tina Maze to clinch her second straight World Cup title in style Sunday, joining Marcel Hirscher on the winners' podium as he celebrated a record fourth successive men's title.

Both won their races, with Hirscher winning the men's slalom to capture his third straight globe in that discipline, and Fenninger making it a great day for the Austrians as she held off Maze to win the women's giant slalom, also defending that title in the process.

Hirscher's fourth World Cup globe put him level overall with the likes of fellow Austrian Hermann Maier, Gustav Thoeni of Italy and Pirmin Zurbriggen of Switzerland, but the Austrian is the first man to win four in a row. Marc Girardelli, an Austrian who competed for Luxembourg, is the only man with five overall titles. On the women's side, Austrian great Annemarie Moser-Proell won five in a row in the early 1970s.

Jansrud won the downhill and super-G titles.

Hudak wins silver in women's 12.5-km pursuit:

Surnadal, Norway – Canada's Brittany Hudak finished off a memorable weekend on Sunday by winning the silver medal in the women's 12.5-kilometre pursuit race at the IPC World Cup.

The Prince Albert, Sask., native missed just one shot in her first of four rounds of shooting to post a second place time of 41:36.6. Ukraine's Oleksandra Kononova won the gold with a time of 39:46.2 while Liudmyla Liashenko, also of Ukraine, claimed bronze.

Hudak, 21, claimed the overall World Cup cross-country ski title on Saturday after a fourth-place finish in the five-kilometre standing classic ski race.

Mark Arendz, of Hartsville, P.E.I., was fifth in the men's 15-kilometre standing pursuit with a time of 45:40.8. Urkaine's Ihor Reptyukh set the time to beat at 42:17.6.

Chris Klebl of Canmore, Alta., who won gold in the men's sit-ski distance races earlier this week at the World Cup finals, finished fifth on Saturday. The result secured the Paralympic champion third overall in the men's cross-country sit-ski division.

Slovenian wins final men's biathlon race:

Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia – Slovenia's Jakov Fak won the final race of the men's World Cup biathlon season Sunday, taking victory in a 15-kilometre mass start event in Russia.

Fak was the only athlete in the 30-man field to make all his 20 shots and finished in a time of 38 minutes 9.8 seconds, 10.3 seconds ahead of second-placed Russian Anton Shipulin. The bronze went to Norway's Tarjei Boe, 1.2 seconds further back.

Calgary's Nathan Smith, who won gold Saturday in the 12.5-kilometre pursuit, was 17th, 1:21.0 behind.

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