World champion Alysa Liu takes free skate as US wins World Team Trophy

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 19, 2025 5:49 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

World champion Alysa Liu produced a flawless regular successful the women's escaped skate arsenic the U.S. won its sixth golden medal astatine the fig skating World Team Trophy connected Saturday successful Tokyo.

Team Canada finished fifth overall. On the last time of competition, Canada's Madeline Schizas and Sara-Maude Dupuis finished seventh and tenth, respectively successful the women's escaped skate. Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps grabbed fourth successful the pairs escaped skate.

Earlier successful the competition, Canadian crystal dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier finished second in both the crystal creation rhythm dance and escaped dance.

Skating to "MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer, the 19-year-old Liu landed 7 triple jumps for a personal-best people of 150.97 points. Teammate Amber Glenn was 2nd with 148.93.

Japan's Kaori Sakamoto was 3rd with 145.00.

The U.S. finished the three-day contention with 126 points, 16 up of Japan. Italy was 3rd with 86 points to assertion its archetypal ever medal successful the event.

"We are conscionable beaming. I'm truthful insanely arrogant of my squad and everyone," U.S. skater Jason Brown said. "It's been specified an unthinkable season, and to extremity it present has been truthful special."

Liu's erstwhile champion escaped skate people was 148.39 lone past period astatine the satellite championships successful Boston.

"I was a small spot happier aft my escaped skate astatine worlds but I'll instrumentality this one," Liu said. "I lone ran it 1 clip earlier coming here, truthful I wasn't expecting that. And I'm blessed I could enactment retired a bully capable people for my team."

Glenn besides posted a idiosyncratic best, which featured a triple axel.

"It's been accordant successful practice, and I adjacent did it successful shows present successful Japan," Glenn said. "It's thing I consciousness I'm capable to bash erstwhile I'm successful the close spot and I was today."

The U.S. has won a medal at each biennial World Team Trophy since its inception successful 2009 and has won six of the 9 competitions.

Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara won the pairs escaped skate arsenic the big federation chopped the Americans' pb to 11 points, but the ascendant performances by Glenn and Liu clinched golden for the U.S.

The U.S. headed into the last time with a 15-point pb implicit Japan aft victories successful the men's and crystal creation competitions connected Friday.

Two-time satellite champion Ilia Malinin won the men's escaped skate to solidify the wide pb for the Americans. Malinin landed 4 quads successful his programme to "I'm Not a Vampire," scoring 183.88 points.

Ice creation satellite champions Madison Chock and Evan Bates won the escaped creation segment. The three-time satellite crystal creation champions received 12 points aft a season's champion people of 133.51

The World Team Trophy features the apical six fig skating teams. France was fourth, followed by Canada and Georgia.