Ilia Malinin three-peats in world championships after disastrous Olympics
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Ilia Malinin has three-peated.
The 21-year-old U.S. figure skater won his third straight world championship Saturday in Prague, scoring 329.40 points to win gold by a margin of 22.73 over Japan's Yuma Kagiyama. Shun Sato also secured Japan a bronze medal.
Malinin becomes the first skater to win three consecutive world titles since Nathan Chen did it from 2018-