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 ...

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. CNN values your feedback 1.

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 🏀⚽️🥇 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 first ...