Malinin looked all but invincible in Boston as he defended his world championship with ease, but he knows there’s room for improvement ahead of Milan in 2026.
Ilia Malinin walked toward the ice for his free skate at the world championships with the swagger of a conquering hero. Then he backed up the bravado. The 20-year-old from Fairfax,
Ilia Malinin won a second straight world title Saturday night, but felt upset that he had left something undone.
Ilia Malinin, Alysa Liu, Madison Chock and Evan Bates, plus Mikaela Shiffrin will appear on the TODAY Show on Monday following a week of Team USA success across Winter Olympic sports. Malinin and Liu,
Ilia Malinin claimed a second consecutive world figure skating title, landing six quadruple jumps in a jaw-dropping peformance.
The American sensation landed six quad jumps to repeat as world champion and cement his status as the Olympic favorite.
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Soap Central on MSNWhere are Ilia Malinin’s parents from? All we know as Virginia figure skater wins World Figure skating championshipIlia Malinin won the World Figure Skating Championship title for the second consecutive time. The self-proclaimed "Quad God", who performed a "horror-themed" routine to the song "I'm not a Vampire", landed a quadruple Axel and five other quadruple jumps and scored 318.
On Saturday the U.S. figure skating star became the men’s world champion for the second straight year. To get there, he had to channel his grief over losing fellow skaters in January’s D.C. plane crash.