US figure skate sensation Ilia Malinin defended his men’s title as compatriot Amber Glenn upset three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto to win women’s gold at the ISU Grand Prix final on Saturday.
Madison Chock and Evan Bates claimed ice dance gold to make it a clean sweep for the United States on the closing day of competition in Grenoble.
Malinin attempted six different quad jumps and, although not all of them came off, he lived up to his self-proclaimed nickname ’the Quad God’.
The 20-year-old world champion went into the free skate with a yawning 12 point cushion over Yuma Kagiyama, the 2022 Olympic silver medallist, after the short programme.
