Sports round-up

Motor Racing: Kimi Raikkonen escaped unhurt after being involved in a snow mobile accident on Saturday, his Lotus-Renault team said. The Finn, who is returning to Formula One next season after two years in rallying, fell off his machine in a race in Austria but suffered just a minor wrist injury.

Figure Skating: Canada’s reigning world champion Patrick Chan stumbled twice and fell once, but held on for his second con-secutive win at the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix Final. Italy’s Carolina Kostner claimed the women’s title, the three-time European champion’s first in the Grand Prix series finale. Her performance also had some rough edges that will require attention heading into the 2012 championship events.

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Golf: Spain’s Alvaro Quiros won the Dubai World Championship in style yesterday when he rolled in a long eagle putt on the 18th green at the Jumeirah Golf Estate to win by two shots. Quiros closed with a five-under par 67 for a 19-under par total of 269, three better than Scotland’s Paul Lawrie. But World No.1 Luke Donald (picture) assured himself the lion’s share of the plaudits after he became the new European No.1 by winning the European Tour’s Race to Dubai, becoming the first man to top the season money lists on both sides of the Atlantic. Donald finished in style, making three birdies to land third place at 16-under par 272.

Field Hockey: Australia maintained its stranglehold on hockey’s Champions Trophy with a 1-0 win over Spain, claiming a record fourth straight title through a disputed goal to Eddie Ockenden. The reigning world champions went into the decider overwhelming favourites but were forced to work hard for their victory by a Spanish side determined to make amends for a disappointing sixth place at the European Championships.The win at the last major tournament for men’s hockey before the London Olympics gave the Kooka-burras their 12th Champions Trophy title overall.

Horse Racing: California Memory galloped to victory in the 2000-metre Hong Kong Cup yesterday, the richest of four meetings at the $8.7 million Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Races. Jockey Matthew Chadwick guided the horse to a surprise victory in the Group One contest, edging fellow Hong Kong-based thoroughbred Irian into second place.