Ilia Malinin claimed a second consecutive world figure skating title, landing six quadruple jumps in a jaw-dropping peformance. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽️🥇 ...

Ilia’s grandpa, Valery Malinin, is a coach, too. Back in the day, he competed for the Soviet Union and now trains skaters in ...

If anybody deserves such a title, it’s Malinin. A lifelong Northern Virginia resident and current George Mason University student, the 20-year-old is taking his sport to new heights—literally.

Because Ilia Malinin has done so much in such a short time, it’s hard to remember that America’s next great figure skater is still an 18-year-old with a shock of light brown hair, strands of ...

SAN JOSE — Ilia Malinin arrived at center ice of the first U.S. figure skating championships of the new four-year Olympic cycle Friday afternoon as if delivered by the skating gods.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — By now, Ilia Malinin has established himself as the most daring and spectacular jumper in figure skating; a 19-year-old who attempts and completes leaps most would be terrified ...

Figure skating phenomenon Ilia Malinin defended his title at Skate America on Saturday with a personal-best score of 310.47 points in the season-opening Grand Prix.. The 18-year-old, who last year ...

Ilia Malinin’s aerial exploits — including a knack for quadruple-turn jumps — have made him an unstoppable force over the last year-plus in figure skating. (Maddie Meyer / Getty Images) ...

Ilia Malinin totaled 318.56 points between his short program and free skate, in which he landed a record-tying six quadruple jumps, to repeat as the figure skating world champion and cap an undefeated ...

For added drama, it didn’t hurt that Yuma Kagiyama of Japan, the last skater to do his short program, followed Malinin and submitted a score of 107.09, landing him in second place, some 3 points ...

Virginia figure skater Ilia Malinin just did something that no other ice athlete has ever accomplished: On Wednesday night in Lake Placid, he landed a quad axel—a stunning four-and-a-half revolution ...