World champion Ilia Malinin became the first man to sweep Skate America and Skate Canada in the same season in 25 years, completing his double in Halifax, Nova Scotia, this weekend.
Malinin, a 19-year-old from Virginia, landed five quadruple jumps between Saturday’s short program and Sunday’s free skate. He totaled 301.82 points, distancing runner-up Shun Sato of Japan by 40.22.
Malinin followed his third consecutive Skate America title last week by winning his Skate Canada debut. He has the world’s top two total scores this season.
Skate America and Skate Canada are usually the first two events of the six-event Grand Prix Series, figure skating’s top international circuit.
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The world’s top skaters each compete at two events on the Grand Prix Series, with the top six per discipline over the series qualifying for December’s Grand Prix Final.
Malinin clinched his spot in the Final by winning his two Grand Prix starts. He won the Final last season.
The last men’s singles skater to win Skate America and Skate Canada in the same season was Russian Alexei Yagudin in the first two weeks of the 1999 Grand Prix. Most top skaters spread out their two Grand Prix starts and don’t compete in back-to-back weeks.
Later Sunday, Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier tied the Skate Canada record with a fifth consecutive ice dance title. Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz also won five in a row from 1994-98.
Gilles and Poirier, the world silver medalists, totaled 214.84 points, the world’s second-best score so far this season. World bronze medalists Charlène Guignard and Marco Fabbri of Italy scored 215.63 last month at a lower-level competition in Italy.
The Grand Prix Series continues later this week with Grand Prix France, live on Peacock. The field includes U.S. champion Amber Glenn in her Grand Prix season debut.
2024 Skate Canada Results
Men
1. Ilia Malinin (USA) — 301.82
2. Shun Sato (JPN) -- 261.16
3. Cha Jun-Hwan (KOR) -- 260.31
4. Sota Yamamoto (JPN) -- 257.00
5. Vladimir Litvintsev (AZE) -- 222.90
6. Gabriele Frangipani (ITA) -- 222.57
7. Aleksa Rakic (CAN) -- 222.49
8. Jason Brown (USA) -- 218.75
9. Stephen Gogolev (CAN) -- 216.84
10. Mark Gorodnitsky (ISR) -- 213.41
11. Luc Economides (FRA) -- 211.48
WD. Roman Sadovsky (CAN)
Ice Dance
1. Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) -- 214.84
2. Marjorie Lajoie/Zachary Lagha (CAN) -- 199.90
3. Evgeniia Lopareva/Geoffrey Brissaud (FRA) -- 194.25
4. Natalie Taschlerova/Filip Taschler (CZE) -- 189.60
5. Emilea Zingas/Vadym Kolesnik (USA) -- 189.41
6. Oona Brown/Gage Brown (USA) -- 179.14
7. Hannah Lim/Ye Quan (KOR) -- 177.09
8. Alicia Fabbri/Paul Ayer (CAN) -- 174.45
9. Emily Bratti/Ian Somerville (USA) -- 173.08
10. Holly Harris/Jason Chan (AUS) -- 163.51
