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

Ilia Malinin
Malinin at 2019 JGP United States
Personal information
Country represented	United States
Born	(2004-12-02) December 2, 2004 (age 17) Fairfax, Virginia
Home town	Vienna, Virginia
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Coach	Tatiana Malinina Roman Skorniakov Rafael Arutyunyan
Former coach	Irina Romanova
Choreographer	Nadezhda Kanaeva
Former choreographer	Irina Romanova Viktor Pfeifer Tatiana Malinina
Skating club	Washington FSC
Training locations	Reston, Virginia Irvine, California
Began skating	2011
ISU personal best scores
Combined total	276.11 (JWR) 2022 Junior Worlds
Short program	100.16 2022 Worlds
Free skate	187.12 (JWR) 2022 Junior Worlds
Medal record Figure skating: Men's singles Representing  United States World Junior Championships 2022 Tallinn Men's singles

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]

Personal life

Malinin was born on December 2, 2004, in Fairfax, Virginia. He is the son of Russian-born Uzbekistani singles skaters Tatiana Malinina 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 in the short program after falling on both a planned quad Lutz and quad toe loop. In his free skate to the Euphoria soundtrack, Malinin made history by becoming the first skater to land a ratified quad Axel.[23] He placed first in the segment to win the event overall by an over 20-point margin over silver medalist Kévin Aymoz.

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	I Put a Spell On You by Jay Hawkins performed by Garou choreo. by Juris Razgulajevs	Euphoria by Labrinth choreo. by Shae-Lynn Bourne
2021–2022	Billie Jean performed by David Cook choreo. by Irina Romanova	Nobody Knows by Autograf Golden Age by Woodkid choreo. by Viktor Pfeifer
2020–2021 [24]	Billie Jean performed by David Cook choreo. by Irina Romanova	Nobody Knows by Autograf Golden Age by Woodkid choreo. by Viktor Pfeifer
2019–2020 [25]	Make It Rain (from Sons of Anarchy) performed by Ed Sheeran choreo. by Tatiana Malinina	Writing's on the Wall (from Spectre) by Sam Smith choreo. by Tatiana Malinina

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 Finland					TBD
GP Skate America			5th		TBD
CS Cup of Austria				3rd
CS U.S. Classic					1st
Challenge Cup				1st
International: Junior[12]
Junior Worlds		16th		1st
JGP Final				C
JGP Austria				1st
JGP France				1st
JGP Italy		7th
JGP U.S.		4th
Philadelphia		1st
International: Advanced novice[26]
Asian Open	1st
Golden Bear	2nd
National[26]
U.S. Champ.	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

Pre-international debut

National[26]
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
November 25–27, 2022	2022 Grand Prix Espoo			TBD
October 21-23, 2022	2022 Skate America			TBD
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

References

External links

• Ilia MALININ at the International Skating Union
• Ilia Malinin at U.S. Figure Skating
• Ilia Malinin on Instagram

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

На других языках

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[de] Ilia Malinin

Ilia Malinin (* 2. Dezember 2004 in Fairfax, Virginia) ist ein US-amerikanischer Eiskunstläufer, der im Einzellauf antritt. Er ist der Juniorenweltmeister von 2022 und hält den Rekord für die höchste Punktzahl in internationalen Juniorenwettbewerben. Er ist der erste Eiskunstläufer, dem ein vierfacher Axel in einem Wettbewerb gelang.

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- [en] Ilia Malinin

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[ru] Малинин, Илья

Илья Малинин (англ. Ilia Malinin; род. 2 декабря 2004, Фэрфакс) — американский фигурист, выступающий в одиночном катании. Серебряный призёр чемпионата США (2022), чемпион мира среди юниоров (2022).

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