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Miura and Kihara edge German pair to win second world figure skating title

On Thursday, March 27, 2025, at the World Figure Skating Championships in Boston, Ilia Malinin, a 20-year-old American, took the lead in the men's competition, while Japan's Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the pairs title.
Malinin, nicknamed "Quad God" due to his skill in quadruple jumps, delivered a brilliant short program, earning a season-best 110.41 points, the fourth-best short program score ever at men's worlds, while the Japanese pair had a 1.96-point lead from the short program.
Miura and Kihara scored 219.79 points to win the pairs title, narrowly defeating Germany's Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Volodin, who scored 0.71 less point, and Italy's Sara Conti and Niccolo Macii, who finished third with 210.47 points.
Malinin, feeling more nervous than usual, stated, "I felt really nervous, more than usual, and I didn't know what was going to happen," and "Once the music came on, I just got into that slow skate and it really just went from there," after receiving a standing ovation from fans.
The men's title will be decided in Saturday's free skate final, with Yuma Kagiyama, the 2022 Olympic runner-up and three-time world runner-up, in second place with 107.09 points, 3.32 points behind Malinin, and Mikhail Shadorov, the Four Continents champion, in third with 94.77 points.

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