Alina Zagitova, 15, wins Olympic figure skating title for OAR's first gold

• Zagitova, 15, outduels Evgenia Medvedeva to win gold medal
• Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond takes bronze with season-best skate
• No US woman finishes in the top six for first time at Olympics

No figure skater dominated the past quadrennium like Evgenia Medvedeva, the raven-haired Russian who last year became the first woman in 16 years to win back-to-back world championships while elevating the sport to new technical heights with dumbfounding consistency.

But none of it mattered on Friday afternoon as the 15-year-old prodigy Alina Zagitova capped her meteoric ascent with the Olympic title, beating out the countrywoman who inspired her to become a figure skater to win the first gold medal for the Olympic Athletes from Russia at these Pyeongchang Games. Canada's Kaetlyn Osmond took the bronze.