{"id":37186,"date":"2025-03-27T23:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/ilia-malinin-sets-personal-best-to-lead-after-short-program-at-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:14:34","slug":"ilia-malinin-sets-personal-best-to-lead-after-short-program-at-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/ilia-malinin-sets-personal-best-to-lead-after-short-program-at-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin sets personal best to lead after short program at world championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>American leads after personal best in short program<\/li>\n<li>Japan\u2019s Kagiyama keeps chase with near career-best<\/li>\n<li>Malinin can backflip into history on Saturday night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ilia Malinin arrived in Massachusetts as the clear favorite to defend his world figure skating championship. On Friday afternoon at TD Garden, he performed like a man unbothered by that weight, launching his title defense with one of the greatest short programs ever performed.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/may\/02\/i-want-to-push-the-limits-quad-god-ilia-malinin-on-his-mission-to-save-figure-skating-and-do-a-quintuple\">nicknamed the Quad God<\/a> delivered a career-best first segment, scoring 110.41 points to take a 3.32-point lead over Japan\u2019s Yuma Kagiyama heading into Saturday night\u2019s free skate. It was the highest short program score of Malinin\u2019s career, and ranks behind only Olympic gold medallists Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isuresults.com\/isujsstat\/pbsmsp.htm\">on the ISU\u2019s all-time list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/mar\/27\/world-figure-skating-championships-mens-short-program\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American leads after personal best in short program Japan\u2019s Kagiyama keeps chase with near career-best Malinin can backflip into history on Saturday night Ilia Malinin arrived in Massachusetts as the clear favorite to defend his world figure skating championship. On Friday afternoon at TD Garden, he performed like a man unbothered by that weight, launching &#8230; <a title=\"Ilia Malinin sets personal best to lead after short program at world championships\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/ilia-malinin-sets-personal-best-to-lead-after-short-program-at-world-championships\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ilia Malinin sets personal best to lead after short program at world championships\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}