Three-time world figure skating champion Ilia Malinin won the fourth stage of the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix for the 2026/27 season in Everett, United States, infohub.kz reports.
The American took the lead after the short program and posted the second-best score in the free skate, 187.57 points. His total of 284.31 points kept him in first place. The home Grand Prix stage was his first competition of the new season.
Italy's Daniel Grassl finished second with 274.73 points after winning the free skate. The bronze went to Israel's Tamir Kuperman (248.55).
Ice dance pairs had earlier opened the competition in the United States. After the rhythm dance, Americans Emilea Zingas and Vadim Kolesnik lead (82.52). France's Evgeniia Lopareva and Geoffrey Brissaud are second (79.94), followed by Czechs Katerina Mrazkova and Daniel Mrazek (76.32).
The event will conclude overnight into November 16, Astana time. Kazakhstan is represented at the U.S. Grand Prix stage by Sofia Samodelkina, who sits 11th after the women's short program.