Russia is celebrating today! For the first time ever, Russian athletes took all three places at the World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm.
Anna Shcherbakova won gold with 233.17 points, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva won silver with 220.46 points and Alexandra Trusova won bronze with 217.20 points.
Alexandra Trusova climbed up to the third final place from the 12th after the short program. In the free program, she tried to perform five quadruple jumps, but made two falls. Tuktamysheva was third after the short program and Shcherbakova was in the lead. Second place went to Japanese skater Rika Kihira, who finished seventh.
The World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm was the first major tournament since the pandemic began. The 2020 World Championships and the 2021 European Championships were understandably cancelled. The day before, the pair of Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galliamov won the gold medal in pairs skating, and Alexandra Boikova and Dmitry Kozlovsky won bronze.