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 ...

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.

American teenager Ilia Malinin landed the second ever quadruple axel in competition on Saturday without so much as a wobble. Competing at Skate America, the 17-year-old’s historic free skate ...

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

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 🏀⚽️🥇 ...

American teenage phenomenon Ilia Malinin won his first ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final on Saturday, after he had made even more figure skating history on Thursday.

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin won a second straight world title Saturday night, this one by a larger margin than the first. But, despite his utter dominance of men’s singles skating, Malinin felt ...

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 ...

Oct 23 (Reuters) - American Ilia Malinin landed only the second quadruple axel in competitive figure skating history at Skate America on Saturday, a month after he executed the move for the first ...

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) ...

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 ...

Originally, Ilia Malinin was the Lutzgod. He created that Instagram handle, named after the second-hardest jump in figure skating, at age 13 in 2018.. Later in his early teens, Malinin landed his ...