Ilia raspberry and Alya Liu were the best

American art skater Ilia malinine he defended the World Champion title in Boston at night. The 20 -year -old home star was in the finals without competition and showed as many as six quadruple jumps, including Aksel, and confirmed his nickname « Quad God ».

The dominance of the American in Boston TD Garden was also confirmed by the final estimates, receiving 318.56 points for the victory. Second -ranked Kazakhstan Mihail Šajdorov ended with a score of 287.47 points and more than 31 points behind, bronze Japanese Juma Kagija And with 278.19. The latter replaced the places from the short program.

A year before the Milano-Cortina D’Ampezzo Olympics, Malinine also confirmed the role of the first favorite for Olympic gold in a bad year in Italy.

All this year’s world champions are also known. In the women’s competition she celebrated the American Alya Liu (USA) 222.97, among sports couples Japanese Riku Miura and Ryyuiči kihara and among the dance couples of an American Madison Chock and Evan Bates. For the first time in history, the United States has won three gold medals in one championship.

Chock and Bates also impressed with the raspberry, who won the gold for the third time in a row. Bronze they won the British Lilah fear and Lewis Gibson and danced the first British medal at the World Cup after gold Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean back in 1984.