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Russian teen edges American Ashley Wagner at figure skating World Championships

 
Published April 3, 2016

BOSTON — Sixteen-year-old Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia capped a dominant debut season by winning a world championship Saturday night with a record-setting free skate score.

Medvedeva earned 150.10 points to break Yuna Kim's record from the 2010 Olympics. She moved up from third after the short program to first to add to her Grand Prix Final and European titles.

American Ashley Wagner skated last and sent the home crowd into a frenzy with a personal-best score that moved her from fourth to second, the first U.S. woman in a decade to win a medal at worlds. Another Russian teen, Anna Pogorilaya, 17, won bronze.

American Gracie Gold, who led after the short program, fell on her opening triple-triple combination to drop to fourth.

Canadians repeat as pairs champs: The crowd was screaming, and so was Meagan Duhamel.

With dozens of Canadian flags waving in the stands, Duhamel soared high, held aloft by partner Eric Radford in the final risky element of their pairs free skate. She screamed because "I knew we had done enough" to win a second straight world title.

Duhamel and Radford came from behind with a near-perfect performance to overtake China's Sui Wenjing and Han Cong, who had their second silver in a row after two mistakes.

Duhamel and Radford, second after Friday's short program, scored a personal-best 153.81 points for a 231.99 total. The Chinese led by 2.67 points after the short program, seeking their first world title. But Sui fell on a throw quad salchow and did a double instead of a triple on their side-by-side salchows. They received 143.62 points for a 224.47 total.

Five-time world champion Aliona Savchenko of Germany and new partner Bruno Massot were third.

The two U.S. pairs — Alexa Scimeca and Chris Knierim, and national champions Tarah Kayne and Danny O'Shea, who train at the Ellenton Ice and Sports Complex in Manatee County — were ninth and 13th, respectively.

NBC Sports contributed to this report.