Unstoppable Marinin is repeated as the world champion of six quadruple jumps | Figure skating

He is known as the Quad God, a great innovator in skating, and the next Olympic champion. On Saturday night, in front of a roaring crowd at TD Garden, Ilia Marinin made it official. He is once again the best figure skater in the world.

The 20-year-old American recorded six rectangular jumps to close the world figure skating championship and walk to his second straight world title, reminiscent of another sensational free skating. His season-best total score of 318.56 landed him with 31.09 points that captured Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Shaydrov, who captured silver in his personal best routine, and Japanese kagiyama, who fell to bronze from second place after the error thread long program.

Marinin’s victory concluded the US historic weekend, winning three of the four gold medals first offered in the world of figure skating. He has been joined on the podium by newly crowned women’s champion Alisa Liu and ice dance winners Madison Chock and Evan Bates.

Finally skating, I’m not a vampire who has American post-metalcore bands falling in reverse. Marinin opened with a quad layer flip before landing the mythical quad axel. From there he added Quad Loop, Quad Lutz, Quad Toe and Quad Sal Show. Only the Rats who were popped mid-program prevented him from trying all seven quads.

Quad Axel has only landed 15 times in the competition since Saturday. He first pulled it off with the US Classic two years ago at age 17, and they all landed by natives in northern Virginia.

Marinin interrupted the program with a seemingly easy backflip. He and fourth-place finisher Adam Ciao became France’s first skater, becoming the recently legalized move in nearly 50 years.

“I’ve just fought for all the elements and I’m happy to have got this,” Marinin said.

The performance extended Marinin’s winning streak to nine consecutive events dating back to December 2023. His victory margin was the second largest in men’s history under a modern scoring system that tracks only Nathan Chen’s 47.63-point blowout in 2018.

Of the six quads landed on Saturday, none made him happier than the loop. “I feel very relieved to be able to perform that way in the way I tried,” he said. “That wasn’t what I was planning on. Of course there are some small things that can continue to improve, but overall I’m pretty confident and I’m really happy to have landed the Quad Loop at the end of this season.”

Marinin, the son of a former Uzbekistan Olympic athlete who moved to Virginia, finished second in the Nationals, was debated by the US Olympic team in 2022. Since landing the first quad axel into the competition later that year, he has been redefining and continuing to lift the sport’s technical ceiling.

Behind him, Shaydorov delivered a personal free skate with four clean quads, including a triple Axel Eurasal Show combination, to the moonlight sonatatake in my mashup, winning Kazakhstan’s first world medal in the field of figure skating. The 20-year-old from Almati, who won four continents in February, passed Kagiyama after the Japanese stars struggled to get upright through his jump.

“If at the beginning of the season, someone had asked me that I was on the world podium, I wouldn’t believe it,” Shaidorov said. “The season was tough, but at the same time it was a breakthrough. I’m so happy to be on the world podium with some amazing skaters like Ilia and Yuma. I want to continue moving forward now.”

Kagiyama, current Olympic Silver Medalist and three-time World Silver Medalist, joined the free skating just 3.32 points behind Marinin. However, falling into his monkey butterfly, a triple axel step-out between his flamenco routine to Arachus and Romanza derailed the shot in gold. His score of 278.19 was enough for his fourth major international medal, the Bronze.

French Kevin Amos (272.52) and World Championship debutant Shun Sato of Japan (270.56) finished fifth and sixth respectively. Among the other Americans, Jason Brown provided him with a clean and expressive program that won him eighth and a standing ovation. Chef Andrew Toga finished 22nd after a difficult free skating, but together they assured Team USA that they would send up to three men to the 2026 Olympics.

Due to all the excitement surrounding the final segment of Saturday’s championship, the flow of sadness continued for a week under the competition. On Wednesday night, TD Garden paused in 20 minutes of honor to 28 members of the skating community who died in the January plane crash crash near Washington, D.C. Many of the victims (young skaters, coaches, parents) have returned from the national development camp. Among them were several who trained at the home rink in Marinin, Virginia.

“They’re always in my heart,” he said earlier this week. “I wanted to skate for them. I hope I’m proud of them.”

Earlier on Saturday, Madison Chock and Evan Bates became the first ice dancers to win three consecutive world championships in nearly 30 years, holding back the longtime Canadian crazy Piper Jill and Paul Poilier. Lila Fear and Lewis Gibson took the bronze and became the first British to win a medal in the world in all discipline since Jane Torville and Christopher Dean won the final of four consecutive ice dance titles in 1984.