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She earned 142.23 points.Īs the music ended, her jaw dropped in exhilaration, an ending that couldn't have been more different from the last time she competed at TD Garden.Īt nationals two years ago, she came in as the two-time defending champion then fell twice in her free skate to finish a distant fourth. Wagner had the crowd shrieking from the moment she landed her triple flip-triple toe loop combination, and the powerhouse program earned her a big score for choreography and expression despite two under-rotated jumps. 'I left everything on the ice'Įven with Gold's mistakes, her score guaranteed that the drought would end - it was just a question of whether it would be Gold or Wagner. No American woman had finished on the podium at worlds since Kimmie Meissner took gold and Sasha Cohen bronze in 2006. She bopped her head to the music as she waited for her scores, squeezing her eyes shut and clutching a stuffed animal tight as the marks were about to be announced. Sitting in the kiss-and-cry area, the teenager came back out. "Actually I don't really have any emotions right now - I left everything on the ice," she said afterward. When it was over, she thrust both fists into the air in triumph. The program opens with Medvedeva peering out into the crowd with a look of wide-eyed wonder. It was a performance both youthful and mature at the same time. "I won't realize quickly I won today because one year ago I was still skating juniors," she said through a translator. She landed seven triple jumps with never a hint of trouble, throwing an arm into the air on many of them. But she was captivating from the start Saturday. Medvedeva looked a bit hesitant during Thursday's short program in her first senior worlds. Newmarket, Ont., native Gabrielle Daleman finished the ladies program in ninth place with a total score of 195.68. Alaine Chartrand of Prescott, Ont., finished seventeenth overall with a score of 157.82.Īmerican Gracie Gold, who led after the short program, fell on her opening triple-triple combination to drop to fourth. woman in a decade to win a medal at worlds.Īnother Russian teen, Anna Pogorilaya, won bronze with 213.69. Told she had set a record, Medvedeva started giggling then summed it up in English: "Wow."Īmerican Ashley Wagner skated last and sent the home crowd into a frenzy with a personal-best score that moved her from fourth to second with a total of 215.39, the first U.S. She moved up from third after the short program to first with a total of 223.86 to add to her Grand Prix Final and European titles Medvedeva earned 150.10 points Saturday to break Yuna Kim's record from the 2010 Olympics. Sixteen-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia capped a dominant debut season by winning a world championship with a record-setting free skate score.
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