Malinin skates to top score in men's short program
With a total segment score of 106.08, Ilia Malinin led all men's singles skaters in the short program at the ISU World Team Trophy in Tokyo, Japan, outpacing the closest competitor by nearly 10 points.
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- NBC Sports
Ilia Malinin appears on TODAY, looks ahead to Olympic season
Ilia Malinin reflected on his undefeated 2024-25 figure skating season and looked ahead to the 2025-26 Olympic campaign while appearing on TODAY on Monday. The 2026 Milan Cortina Games open in 270 days. 'I feel really good,' Malinin said. 'I'm really excited to start off this Olympic season.' Malinin, a 20-year-old from Virginia, won his last nine individual competitions dating to December 2023. In March, he repeated as world champion by becoming the first skater to land all six different types of quadruple jumps in one program without any under-rotations. The self-nicknamed 'quad god' is the only skater to ever land the most difficult quad — the four-and-a-half-revolution quad Axel. Malinin is coached by his parents, who each skated at the Olympics for Uzbekistan and moved to the U.S. before Malinin was born. 'They're such an inspiration to me,' Malinin said, while joking that his mom is the stricter parent. Malinin is expected to begin his 2025-26 Olympic season in earnest on the top-level Grand Prix Series in October and November. Nick Zaccardi,
NBC Sports
20-04-2025
- NBC Sports
U.S. rolls to World Team Trophy figure skating title, but will 2026 Olympic team event be closer?
The U.S. cruised past rival Japan to win figure skating's World Team Trophy, but the competition could be closer in the 2026 Olympic team event. The Americans were led by their world champions from last month: Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu and ice dancers Madison Chock and Evan Bates posted the top scores in both of their respective programs. The U.S. ended up prevailing by 16 points over Japan in a competition that could have been much closer. A key was the overall performance of the two powers' singles skaters. All of the U.S. singles skaters (Malinin, Liu, Jason Brown and Amber Glenn) finished higher than all of Japan's singles skaters in each program save the women's short, where Kaori Sakamoto and Mone Chiba finished between Liu and Glenn. The pairs' and ice dance results went pretty much to form: Japan's world champions Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won both pairs' programs, earning eight more points than Americans Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov. Chock and Bates outscored Japan's dance couple by 10 points. At World Team Trophy, each of the world's top six skating nations — the U.S., Japan, Italy, France, Canada and Georgia — fielded a team of two men's singles skaters, two women's singles skaters, one pairs' team and one ice dance couple. All of the skaters performed two programs. Team standings were determined by point values corresponding to skaters' placements in each of the eight total programs. A key difference between World Team Trophy and the Olympic team event: World Team Trophy includes two men's singles skaters and two women's singles skaters per nation in both programs. At the Olympics, it's one per nation in both programs. Plus, the Olympic team event can include up to 10 nations (and included exactly 10 in 2014, 2018 and 2022). The field is cut to five for the free skates in each discipline, another difference from World Team Trophy. Also at the Olympics, nations can substitute up to two of the four entries for the free skates, adding another layer of strategy. In 2022, skaters from Russia originally had the highest total, but they dropped from first to third after Kamila Valiyeva's doping disqualification. The U.S. took gold and Japan silver. Though skaters from Russia are eligible for the 2026 Olympics as neutral athletes (max. one entry per discipline), they are not eligible for the team event. Philip Hersh,
Associated Press
19-04-2025
- Associated Press
World champion Alysa Liu wins free skate as US captures gold medal at World Team Trophy
TOKYO (AP) — World champion Alysa Liu produced a flawless routine in the women's free skate on Saturday as the United States won its sixth gold medal at the figure skating World Team Trophy. Skating to 'MacArthur Park' by Donna Summer, the 19-year-old Liu landed seven triple jumps for a personal-best score of 150.97 points to finish ahead of teammate Amber Glenn, who was second with 148.93. Japan's Kaori Sakamoto was third with 145.00 points. The United States finished the three-day competition with 126 points, 16 ahead of Japan. Italy was third with 86 points to claim its first ever medal in the event. The US team has medaled at every World Team Trophy since its inception in 2009 and has earned gold medals in six of the nine competitions, standing atop the podium in 2009, 2013, 2015, 2019, 2023 and 2025. Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the pairs free skate on Saturday as the host nation cut the Americans' lead to 11 points but the dominant performances by Glenn and Liu clinched gold for the US. Team USA headed into the final day with a 15-point lead over Japan after victories in the men's and ice dance competitions on Friday. Two-time world champion Ilia Malinin won the men's free skate to solidify the overall lead for the Americans heading into the final day. Malinin landed four quads in his program to 'I'm Not a Vampire,' scoring 183.88 points. Ice dance world champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the free dance segment. The three-time world ice dance champions received 12 points after a season's best score of 133.51 The ISU World Team Trophy features the world's top six figure skating teams. France was fourth with 78 points followed by Canada with 72 and Georgia with 68. ___ AP sports:
