PRAGUE — Ilia Malinin reeled off one huge jump after another, and a backflip for good measure, to retain his world championship title for the third year running.

Malinin landed five high-scoring quadruple jumps but not his pioneering quad axel, a jump he didn’t attempt at the Olympics. Malinin scored 218.11 in the free skate for a total 329.40 on Saturday, far ahead of silver medalist Yuma Kagiyama of Japan on 306.67.

Another Japanese skater, Shun Sato, was third on 288.54. Ice dance was the only event at the world championships where the Milan Cortina Olympic champions were competing and France’s Laurence Fournier Beaudry and Guillaume Cizeron added a world title to their collection.

Sabalenka defeats Gauff

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Aryna Sabalenka beat Coco Gauff in the Miami Open women’s singles final 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.

The world No. 1 overpowered fourth-ranked Gauff in the first and third sets with sizzling groundstroke winners and became the first player to accomplish the “Sunshine Double” — winning Indian Wells followed by Miami in the same season — since Iga Swiatek in 2022.

The win on Saturday was Sabalenka’s second straight title at the Open.

Elsewhere in sports:

– Matt Turner was back in the U.S. goal for the first time in last June, playing in a 5-2 loss to Belgium in a World Cup warmup. Turner was the American starter at the 2022 World Cup and held the role until he was displaced last June by Matt Freese. U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino sounded as if he wanted to see Turner so he could evaluate his form in case Freese gets hurt. The U.S. was ahead before Belgium got a 45th-minute equalizer, the first of five straight goals.