Figure Skating
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Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara Win Figure Skating Pairs Title; Malinin Grabs Men’s World Lead
BOSTON (AFP-Jiji) — Defending champion Ilia Malinin seized command of the men’s competition at th...
March 28, 2025
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Reigning Champ Ilia Malinin of US Leads Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama at Figure Skating World Championships
BOSTON (AP) — American figure skating sensation Ilia Malinin sheepishly grinned when his closest ...
March 28, 2025
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Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara Hold on to Short Program Lead to Capture Second Four Continents Title
SEOUL (AP) — Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara of Japan won the pairs event at the Four Continents fi...
February 22, 2025
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Russian Skating Couple, World Champions in 1990s, Were on Crashed US Plane
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian ice skating coaches and former world champions Yevgenia Shishkova and ...
January 30, 2025
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Yuma Kagiyama Takes Silver, Kaori Sakamoto Has to Settle for Third Place; Malinin and Glenn Win as US Figure Skaters Take 3 Gold Medals at Grand Prix Final
GRENOBLE, France (AP) — Ilia Malinin landed six quadruple jumps and Amber Glenn ended a 14-year w...
December 9, 2024
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Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama, Hana Yoshida Sweep Gold in Finland GP
Japanese figure skaters Yuma Kagiyama and Hana Yoshida swept to men’s and women’s gold in the Fin...
November 17, 2024
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Yuma Kagiyama Defends Title at NHK Trophy and Kaori Sakamoto Leads Japanese Sweep in Women’s Event
TOKYO (AP) — Yuma Kagiyama of Japan recovered from an early fall in his free skate on Saturday to...
November 10, 2024
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Kagiyama and Sakamoto Lead Japanese Sweep of Men’s and Women’s Short Programs at NHK Trophy
TOKYO (AP) — Defending champion Yuma Kagiyama performed a near-flawless routine on Friday to lead...
November 9, 2024
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French Grand Prix Figure Skating: Japan’s Koshiro Shimada Is Second
Adam Siao Him Fa leapt from eighth place overnight to claim a third French Grand Prix figure skat...
November 3, 2024
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Kaori Sakamoto Leads Japanese Medal Sweep at Skate Canada
MONTREAL (AFP-Jiji) — Threetime reigning world champion Kaori Sakamoto led a Japanese podium swee...
October 27, 2024
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Higuchi Wins Women’s Gold, Miura And Kihara Capture Pairs in Big Night for Japan at Skate America
Wakaba Higuchi won her first Grand Prix event after more than eight years of trying Saturday nigh...
October 20, 2024
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Shoma Uno Announces His Retirement from Skating, Expresses Gratitude For ‘Wonderful’ Competitive Career
Men's figure skater Shoma Uno, 26, announced on his SNS Thursday that he will retire from active ...
May 9, 2024
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Yuma Kagiyama of Japan Win Silver, Defending World Champion Shoma Uno of Japan Fall to Fourth; Ilia Malinin Takes Men’s World Figure Skating Crown in Record
MONTREAL (AP) — American figure skating star Ilia Malinin is a world champion — and a world-recor...
March 24, 2024
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Japan’s Sakamoto Three-Peats as Women’s Figure Skating World Champion
MONTREAL (AP) — Kaori Sakamoto of Japan is the first women’s figure skater to three-peat as world...
March 23, 2024
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Japan’s Riku Miura, Ryuichi Kihara in Second Place after Short Program at Worlds
MONTREAL (AP) — Canadian pair Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps put forth an electrifyin...
March 21, 2024
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