On Saturday in Montreal, the Northern Virginia native added his first world championship to his two U.S. titles.
and then proceeded to land five more quads on his way to claiming the figure skating world championship Saturday night.
After finishing what might have been his finest free skate, the 19-year-old from Vienna, Va., fell on his back on the Bell Centre ice and appeared to cry. Later, as his winning score of 333.76 was read, putting him 24 ahead of runner-up Yuma Kagiyama of Japan, he covered his mouth and fell onto the lap of his coach and father, Roman Skorniakov.France’s Adam Siao Him Fa, took the bronze after a dazzling free skate that included a backflip.
Earlier in the day, the American ice dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates won their second straight world title, beating the Canadian team of Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier by 2.52 points. Chock and Bates, who plan to get married this summer and train in Montreal with an apartment just blocks from Bell Centre, have won all five of their competitions this season and took five of seven last year.
He won his second national title in January but talked the whole weekend about fighting injuries and struggling to feel comfortable in a new pair of skates. On Thursday, after a clean but not extraordinary short program left him in third place, he said he had been battling more injuries and doubt — and indicated he wasn’t sure he wanted to come to Montreal before adding he was happy he had pushed through the issues.
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