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Ilia Malinin
Malinin at 2019 JGP United States
Born (2004-12-02) December 2, 2004 (age 19)
Fairfax, Virginia
HometownVienna, Virginia
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
CoachTatiana Malinina
Roman Skorniakov
Rafael Arutyunyan
Skating clubWashington Figure Skating Club
Began skating2011
Medal record
Figure skating: Men's singles
Representing  United States
Grand Prix Final
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Torino Men's singles
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2022 Tallinn Men's singles

Ilia Malinin (born December 2, 2004) is an American figure skater. He is the 2022 Skate America champion, the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo champion, the 2022-23 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, the 2022 CS U.S. Classic champion, 2021 CS Cup of Austria bronze medalist, and 2022 U.S. national silver medalist.

On the junior level, Malinin is the 2022 World Junior champion, 2021 JGP France I champion, and 2021 JGP Austria champion. He currently holds the world junior record for the men's short program, men's free skate, and men's combined score.

Malinin is the first and only skater to land a quadruple Axel, widely regarded as the hardest jump in figure skating, as well as the first to land a fully rotated one in international competition.[1] He accomplished this feat at his first attempt at the 2022 CS U.S. Classic, and repeated the feat for his senior Grand Prix debut one month later at Skate America.

Personal life

Malinin was born on December 2, 2004, in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the son of Russian-born Uzbekistani singles skaters Tatiana Malinina (1999 Grand Prix Final and Four Continents champion) and Roman Skorniakov,[2] and has a younger sister named Liza, born in 2014. Malinin took the Russian masculine form of his mother's surname due to his parents' concerns that his father's surname would be too difficult to pronounce.[3] He is fluent in Russian and English.[4] As of 2021, Malinin attends George C. Marshall High School.[2]

Malinin admires his mother's skating, as well as Evgeni Plushenko, Nathan Chen, and Mikhail Kolyada.[4] He also looks up to Yuzuru Hanyu.[5]

Career

Early career

Malinin began skating in 2010 under the tutelage of his parents, who were both Olympic skaters for Uzbekistan. He is the 2016 U.S. national juvenile champion, the 2017 U.S. national intermediate champion, and the 2019 U.S. national novice bronze medalist; he did not qualify for the 2018 U.S. Championships. Internationally on the advanced novice level, Malinin is the 2018 Asian Open Trophy champion and the 2018 Golden Bear silver medalist.[2]

2019–2020 season

Malinin made his junior international debut at the Philadelphia Summer International, winning gold ahead of U.S. teammate Nicholas Hsieh and Darian Kaptich of Australia. On the 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix, he placed fourth at JGP United States and seventh at JGP Italy. Malinin was unable to compete at the 2020 U.S. Championships due to injury, but was awarded a berth to the 2020 World Junior Championships based on his early season results.[4] At the World Junior Championships, he was 13th in the short program and 18th in the free skating to finish 16th overall.

2020–2021 season

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020–21 ISU Junior Grand Prix, where Malinin would have competed, was cancelled. He was instead invited to 2020 Skate America after the Grand Prix series was converted to semi-domestic events. Malinin placed a surprise fifth at Skate America after unveiling two new quadruple jumps – toe loop and Salchow – that he learned during lockdown.[6] As a result of his placement, he was invited to participate in the Las Vegas Invitational, where he helped Team Tara defeat Team Johnny.[7] Malinin was unable to compete at the 2021 U.S. Championships after missing the qualifying competition due to an ankle injury.[8]

2021–2022 season

With the resumption of the Junior Grand Prix, Malinin returned to international competition at the first edition of the 2021 JGP France in Courchevel, winning the gold medal despite making errors on both of his attempted quadruple jumps in the free skate. He called it "a struggle since I haven’t competed in a year, but I think now that I’m back things are starting going back to normal."[9] At his second event, the 2021 JGP Austria in Linz, Malinin entered as one of the favourites for the gold medal, and won with new personal bests in all segments. He landed a quad Salchow successfully in the free skate, while making an error on his quad toe loop attempt. With two gold medals, he qualified to the Junior Grand Prix Final.[10] However, the Final would later be cancelled due to travel restrictions prompted by the Omicron variant.[11]

Returning to the senior level at the 2021 CS Cup of Austria in November, he placed thirteenth in the short program but rallied with a second-place free skate to take the bronze medal.[12]

Competing at the 2022 U.S. Championships with hopes of making the American Olympic team, Malinin placed third in the short program. Second in the free skate with four quadruple jumps landed, Malinin won the silver medal, a result he said surprised him: "I definitely wasn’t expecting to skate this good and especially place second."[13] Malinin's placement resulted that, per qualification criteria, the third berth on the Olympic team was to be decided between him and pewter medalist Jason Brown. Ultimately the committee chose the veteran Brown, a result that attracted some controversy.[14] Malinin was instead assigned to make his World Championship debut later in the year. Brown praised him, saying "U.S. figure skating is so lucky to have such a bright future with Ilia."[15]

In advance of the 2022 World Championships, Malinin was sent to the International Challenge Cup to secure the required technical minimum scores. He was successful in this, winning the gold medal in the process.[12] Competing at the World Championships in Montpellier, the men's field was considerably more open than usual due to the absences of Nathan Chen and Yuzuru Hanyu and the International Skating Union banning all Russian athletes due to their country's invasion of Ukraine.[16] Malinin finished fourth in the short program with a personal best of 100.16, exceeding his previous best international score by almost twenty points. He sat only 0.96 points behind third-place Kazuki Tomono.[17] In the free skate he made major errors on two quadruple jump attempts, both of which were downgraded, and dropped to ninth overall. He spoke afterward of there having been "more pressure on myself, just wanting to skate good so badly and it kind of didn't work out."[18]

Malinin finished the season at the 2022 World Junior Championships, which due to Bulgarian pandemic measures was delayed from early March to mid-April and relocated from Sofia to Tallinn.[19] He entered the event as the heavy favourite for the gold medal based on a strong season.[20] In the short program he skated cleanly and set a new junior world record of 88.99.[21] He won the free skate as well, setting junior world records for that segment and for total score, taking the gold medal by a margin of almost 42 points over silver medalist Mikhail Shaidorov.[22]

2022–2023 season

Malinin opened his season at the 2022 CS U.S. Classic. He placed sixth place in his short program. His free skate, which was set to the Euphoria soundtrack and was choreographed by Shae-Lynn Bourne, consisted of five quad jumps, including a quad Axel, his first jump during the program, which made him the first skater to land the jump in an international competition.[23][24] American figure skater Adam Rippon called Malinin's accomplishment "the craziest thing I’ve ever seen anyone do on the ice.”[25] The judges awarded Malinin's quad Axel with a grade of execution of 1.0. His free skate also included a triple Lutz-triple Axel combination near the end. He fell attempting a quad Lutz, but successfully completed all of his other jumps. He came in first place in the free skate, earning a total of 257.28 points, coming in first place overall. Kévin Aymoz from France came in second place with 236.17 points and fellow American Camden Pulkinen came in third place with 219.49 points.[23][24][25] His achievement earned him a place on the Time 100 Next list for 2022.[26]

At the Japan Open as part of Team North America, Malinin placed first in the men's free skate competition, earning a total of 193.80 points behind world champion Shoma Uno , while his team as a whole finished second to the host country Japan. He touched the ice on his final rotation of his quad Axel, so he was not able to successfully land it even though he accomplished it during practice, but "effortlessly"[27] completed all four of his other quad jumps.

Returning to the senior Grand Prix at the 2022 Skate America in Norwood, Massachusetts, Malinin fell on his quad toe jump but earned 86.08 points in his short program, which put him in fourth place. During his free skating program, he fell on his quad Lutz jump, which was underrotated, but successfully landed four "solid"[28] quad jumps, including a "beautiful"[28] and "nearly perfectly"[29] executed quad Axel jump, the first jump of the program, which earned him many positive GOEs.[28] He also completed a quad toe loop, a quad Lutz, a quad Salchow, and a combination quad Lutz-triple Salchow, when he fell. The Associated Press reported that "with an almost sheepish smile",[29] he got back up from the ice and completed a triple flip-triple toe loop and a triple Lutz-triple Axel, which earned him a standing ovation from the audience.[29] His spins were all level-4. He earned 194.29 points in his free skate, with a total score of 280.37, seven points more than the second-place finisher Kao Miura from Japan, putting him in first place overall.[28][29] He was the youngest Skate America men's champion in the event's history.[30] At his second event, the 2022 Grand Prix of Espoo, Malinin underrotated two of his jumps and stumbled out of his triple Axel, as a result placing second in that segment behind France's Kévin Aymoz. He revealed afterward that he was "a little bit injured" with a problem in his left foot.[31] He won the free skate decisively, moving into first place and taking his second gold medal. These results qualified him to the Grand Prix Final.[32][33]

At the Final in Torino, Malinin stepped out of two jumps and slightly underrotated a third, as a result placing fifth in that segment with a score of 80.10, well back of the leaders. He indicated that he remained bothered by his injury and would not attempt the quad Lutz in competition.[34][35] He rebounded in the free skate, finishing in second place in that segment, with only a small error on one slightly underrotated jump. He rose to the bronze medal overall, 2.41 points behind silver medalist Sōta Yamamoto of Japan. Looking ahead, Malinin said his "goal is to definitely make sure that I'm able to be comfortable with my short program, because as of right now it's been a bit messy."[36][37]

Records and achievements

Junior world record scores

Malinin has set the junior world record scores three times under the current +5 / -5 GOE (Grade of Execution) system – once in each three categories.

Junior men's short program
Date Score Event Note
April 14, 2022 88.99 2022 World Junior Championships Current junior world record
Junior men's free skate
Date Score Event Note
April 16, 2022 187.12 2022 World Junior Championships Current junior world record
Junior men's combined total
Date Score Event Note
April 16, 2022 276.11 2022 World Junior Championships Current junior world record

Programs

Season Short program Free skating Exhibition
2022–2023
[38]
2021–2022
[39]
2020–2021
[40]
2019–2020
[41]

Competitive highlights

GP: Grand Prix; CS: Challenger Series; JGP: ISU Junior Grand Prix. Pewter medals (4th place) awarded only at U.S. national, sectional, and regional events.

International[12]
Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22 22–23
Worlds 9th
GP Final 3rd
GP Finland 1st
GP Skate America 5th 1st
CS Cup of Austria 3rd
CS U.S. Classic 1st
Challenge Cup 1st
Japan Open 2nd T
2nd P
International: Junior[12]
Junior Worlds 16th 1st
JGP Austria 1st
JGP France 1st
JGP Italy 7th
JGP U.S. 4th
Philadelphia 1st
International: Advanced novice[42]
Asian Open 1st
Golden Bear 2nd
National[42]
U.S. Championships 3rd N WD 2nd
Eastern Sect. 1st N 2nd J
South Atlantic 2nd N
ISP Points Challenge 8th
USCS Virginia 1st
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior
T = Team result; P = Personal result. Medals awarded for team result only.

Pre-international debut

National[42]
Event 14–15 15–16 16–17 17–18
U.S. Champ. 9th V 1st V 1st I
Eastern Sectional 4th V 2nd V 1st I 5th N
South Atlantic Regionals 2nd V 2nd V 1st I 2nd N
Levels: V = Juvenile; I = Intermediate; N = Novice

Detailed results

ISU Personal best in bold. Current ISU world bests highlighted in bold and italic.

Senior results

2022–23 season
Date Event SP FS Total
December 8–11, 2022 2022–23 Grand Prix Final 5
80.10 		2
191.84 		3
271.94
November 25–27, 2022 2022 Grand Prix Espoo 2
85.57 		1
192.82 		1
278.39
October 21–23, 2022 2022 Skate America 4
86.08 		1
194.29 		1
280.37
October 8, 2022 2022 Japan Open – 2
193.42 		2T
September 13–16, 2022 2022 CS U.S. Classic 6
71.84 		1
185.44 		1
257.28
2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
March 21–27, 2022 2022 World Championships 4
100.16 		11
163.63 		9
263.79
February 24–27, 2022 2022 Challenge Cup 2
84.55 		1
176.14 		1
260.69
January 3–9, 2022 2022 U.S. Championships 3
103.46 		2
199.01 		2
302.48
November 11–14, 2021 2021 CS Cup of Austria 13
67.58 		2
154.97 		3
222.55
2020–21 season
Date Event SP FS Total
October 23–24, 2020 2020 Skate America 7
76.75 		5
143.56 		5
220.31

Junior results

2021–22 season
Date Event SP FS Total
April 13–17, 2022 2022 World Junior Championships 1
88.99 		1
187.12 		1
276.11
October 6–9, 2021 2021 JGP Austria 1
81.31 		1
164.04 		1
245.35
August 18–21, 2021 2021 JGP France I 1
80.07 		1
134.57 		1
214.64
2019–20 season
March 2–8, 2020 2020 World Junior Championships 13
74.02 		18
121.95 		16
195.97
November 12–16, 2019 2020 Eastern Sectional Singles Final 3
68.09 		1
134.08 		2
202.17
October 2–5, 2019 2019 JGP Italy 4
72.19 		7
131.28 		7
203.47
August 28–31, 2019 2019 JGP United States 3
71.34 		3
130.38 		4
201.72
Jul. 29 – Aug. 3, 2019 2019 Philadelphia Summer International 1
71.50 		1
130.34 		1
201.84

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World Junior Record Holders
Preceded by Men's Junior Short Program
April 14, 2022 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Men's Junior Free Skating
April 16, 2022 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by Men's Junior Total Score
April 16, 2022 – present 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
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