Patrick Chan Breaks Figure Skating Records

The Toronto figure skater has won his first world championship by setting three world records in two days.

Patrick Chan, a 20-year-old figure skater from Toronto, set the new standard for excellence in his sport this week, breaking three world records en route to winning the men's world championship in Moscow. First, he set the short-program record on Wednesday with a score of 93.02. Then, on Thursday, he obliterated the long-program record with a 187.96 and set the new standard for figure skating perfection with the highest-ever overall score of 280.98. Although he finished a disappointing fifth overall at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Chan's latest achievements – and at such a young age – bode very well for him at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.