U.S. star Ilia Malinin crushes it to win Skate Canada International title

U.S. fig skating prima Ilia Malinin dominated the tract and captured men’s golden astatine the Skate Canada International successful Halifax connected Sunday.

The reigning satellite champion received a lasting ovation for his vampire-themed escaped programme — which included a backflip — to assertion a Grand Prix rubric connected consecutive weekends.

Malinin besides won Skate America successful Allen, Texas, past Sunday.

Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps repeated arsenic pairs champions Saturday, portion three-time satellite champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan won golden successful the women’s title.

The 19-year-old Malinin scored 301.82 full points.

Japan’s Shun Sato (261.16) won metallic portion South Korea’s Junhwan Cha (260.31) took bronze.

Aleksa Rakic of Burnaby, B.C., scored 222.49 arsenic the apical Canadian, finishing seventh successful the 12-skater field.

Toronto’s Stephen Gogolev (216.84) fell to ninth aft placing 5th successful the abbreviated program.

Roman Sadovsky of Vaughan, Ont., withdrew for aesculapian reasons aft finishing past successful the abbreviated programme Saturday.

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Later connected Sunday, crystal dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier vie successful the escaped dance, the last lawsuit astatine Skate Canada. Gilles and Poirier ranked archetypal aft the escaped skate, up of chap Canadians Marjorie Lajoie and Zachary Lagha.

Canada’s Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps repeated arsenic pairs champions Saturday, portion three-time satellite champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan won golden successful the women’s title.

The Grand Prix, the apical bid successful fig skating, consists of six events and a final.

Next up is the Grand Prix de France from Nov. 1-3.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Oct. 27, 2024.