Even before he won the silver at last year’s Nationals, Ilia Malinin, now 18, was styling himself “quadg0d” on Instagram. On Sunday, he claimed his first gold in San Jose.
The European Figure Skating Championships concluded on Saturday with the free dance and the women’s free skate. Loena Hendrickx of Belgium, the reigning world silver medalist, hoped to move up to gold here but was disappointed to settle for second place. Anastasiia Gubanova became the first Georgian skater to win gold at Europeans; Kimmy Repond of Switzerland remained in third place.
In San Jose Saturday night, Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier reclaimed the U.S. pairs title they first won in 2021. They will go to the World Figure Skating Championships along with silver medalists Emily Chan and Spencer Howe and bronze medalists Ellie Kam and Danny O’Shea. With the retirement of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue and the withdrawal of Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, recovering from injuries, the U.S. ice-dance field this season was its widest-open in years.
. He has since become the first skater to land a ratified quad axel in competition. Despite the quad axel, this season he had not skated a clean short program until Friday, when he earned the second-highest technical score ever at Nationals . Malinin told interviewers he was there to claim “his” title, and he did it on Sunday—but not with the performance he wanted or viewers expected.
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