Make way for another Russian figure skating star.
Yevgenia Medvedeva won Skate America in her senior Grand Prix debut in Milwaukee on Saturday. Medvedeva, 15 and the World junior champion, held off American Gracie Gold by 3.21 points.
A U.S. woman hasn’t won Skate America since Ashley Wagner in 2012, matching the longest drought for the host nation in the event’s history.
Gold, who finished fourth at the Sochi Olympics and 2015 World Championships, outscored Medvedeva in the free skate but couldn’t make up all of a 5.53-point deficit from Friday’s short program.