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"Quad god" Ilia Malinin wins 3rd consecutive world figure skating championship title after disastrous Olympic performance
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TL;DR
- Ilia Malinin won his third consecutive world championship title in Prague.
- He landed five high-scoring quadruple jumps and a backflip in his free skate.
- Malinin's win follows an eighth-place finish at the Olympics six weeks prior.
- He is the first skater to win three consecutive men's world titles since Nathan Chen.
- Yuma Kagiyama of Japan took silver, and Shun Sato of Japan took bronze.