{"id":70267,"date":"2026-03-28T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/ilia-malinin-completes-redemption-arc-with-third-straight-world-figure-skating-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:55:34","slug":"ilia-malinin-completes-redemption-arc-with-third-straight-world-figure-skating-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/ilia-malinin-completes-redemption-arc-with-third-straight-world-figure-skating-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilia Malinin completes redemption arc with third straight world figure skating championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US star wins third straight world title after Olympic shock<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Japanese rivals Kagiyama and Sato round out podium<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ilia Malinin claimed a third straight world figure skating championship on Saturday afternoon, completing a swift redemption a month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/14\/ilia-malinin-winter-olympics-figure-skating-2026\">his shock Olympic collapse<\/a> with a commanding free skate.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old American entered the final at Prague\u2019s O2 Arena with a commanding lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/26\/the-quad-god-reborn-ilia-malinin-leads-world-championships-after-olympic-shock\">after Thursday\u2019s short program<\/a>, where his personal-best 111.29 had put him more than nine points clear of the field. This time, there would be no unraveling.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/28\/ilia-malinin-third-world-title-redemption-olympic-collapse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US star wins third straight world title after Olympic shock Japanese rivals Kagiyama and Sato round out podium Ilia Malinin claimed a third straight world figure skating championship on Saturday afternoon, completing a swift redemption a month after his shock Olympic collapse with a commanding free skate. The 21-year-old American entered the final at Prague\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Ilia Malinin completes redemption arc with third straight world figure skating championship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/ilia-malinin-completes-redemption-arc-with-third-straight-world-figure-skating-championship\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ilia Malinin completes redemption arc with third straight world figure skating championship\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70267","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=70267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}