15-year-old wins Olympic gold

By Daily Sports on February 24, 2018

Fifteen-year-old Alina Zagitova won the first gold for the Olympic athletes from Russia at the 2018 Winter Olympics in the women's single figure skating.

She followed her short programme world record 82.92 with 156.65 points in the free dance to finish 1.31 points ahead of compatriot Evgenia Medvedeva.

Skating last, Medvedeva, 18, looked to have done enough to overhaul Zagitova but the judges scored their free dance routines equally in Pyeongchang.

Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond took bronze.

OAR have now won 14 medals at these Games, while Zagitova is the second youngest women's figure skating champion in history after American Tara Lipinski in 1998.

"I need some time to understand that I won the Olympic Games," said Zagitova.

"I knew I didn't have any room for errors. My hands were shaking, but my body remembered what I've been doing many times in practice."

Two-time world champion Medvedeva was favourite for the event until recent months before a foot injury and the emergence of her younger training partner Zagitova.

Zagitova and Medvedeva are two of 169 Russia athletes who are allowed to compete as neutrals under the OAR team banner at the Games despite Russia being banned for anti-doping violations.

OAR have won one gold medal, five silver and eight bronze.

•Photo shows Alina Zagitova.

Source Daily Sports

Posted February 24, 2018


 

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