BOSTON — Ilia Malinin skated a personal best short program to open his bid for a repeat world figure skating title.Jason Brown is back from boot problems to compete at his seventh World Championships.Worlds continue later Thursday with the pairs’ free skate, live on Peacock starting at 6:15 p.m. ET and USA Network at 8.Every […]
BOSTON — Ilia Malinin skated a personal best short program to open his bid for a repeat world figure skating title.Jason Brown is back from boot problems to compete at his seventh World Championships.Worlds continue later Thursday with the pairs’ free skate, live on Peacock starting at 6:15 p.m. ET and USA Network at 8.Every American men’s singles skater who won the world title the year before the Olympics went on to win Olympic gold the following year: Dick Button (1951), Hayes Alan Jenkins (1955), David Jenkins (1959), Scott Hamilton (1983), Evan Lysacek (2009) and Nathan Chen (2021).Malinin tallied 110.41 points at TD Garden, edging Kagiyama by 3.32 going into Saturday’s free skate (8 p.m. ET, NBC and Peacock).
His closest rival, Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama, nearly skated a personal best as he bids for his first global title after previous Olympic and world silver medals.FIGURE SKATING WORLDS: Results | Broadcast ScheduleOnly Olympic gold medalists Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu have scored higher in a short program than Malinin did Thursday.Malinin, who has won his last eight competitions dating to December 2023, landed a quadruple flip, triple Axel and a quad Lutz-triple toe loop combination. The D.C. area native usually only attempts his trademark quad Axel in the free skate.
Fellow Americans Andrew Torgashev and Jason Brown sit eighth and 12th, respectively, after their highest-scoring short programs of the international season.
2025 World Figure Skating Championships Results
Men’s Short Program
1. Ilia Malinin (USA) — 110.41
2. Yuma Kagiyama (JPN) — 107.09
3. Mikhail Shaidorov (KAZ) — 94.77
4. Kevin Aymoz (FRA) — 93.63
5. Shun Sato (JPN) — 91.26
6. Nika Egadze (GEO) — 90.39
7. Nikolaj Memola (ITA) — 87.89
8. Andrew Torgashev (USA) — 87.27
9. Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) — 87.22
10. Cha Jun-Hwan (KOR) — 86.41
12. Jason Brown (USA) — 84.72