“I join in the general admiration. For myself, I called it the ride of the century. The level of difficulty is prohibitive, it is worth noting that Ilya has greatly improved the quality of skating and expressiveness, even against the backdrop of the complexity of the program,” Goncharenko told Match TV.
In the free program, the skater jumped six quadruple jumps and received 227.79 points for the skate, breaking Nathan Chen's world record (224.92). He scored a total of 333.76 points.
Yuma Kagiyama from Japan was second (309.65). Adam Xiao Him Fa from France closed the top three winners (284.39).
Earlier, RT columnist Elena Vaitsekhovskaya commented on Malinin’s victory at the 2024 World Championships in Montreal.