Ilia Malinin is heavily favored to defend his figure skating world championship this week in what should be a preview of the competition at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The big ...

BOSTON (AP) — Ilia Malinin defended his world ... give them a wave of momentum heading into an Olympic year. The 20-year-old from Fairfax, Virginia, came up short in his try at a record seven quads — ...

Malinin won last year's world championships by a whopping 24-point margin over Japan's Yuma Kagiyama. BOSTON — It was a little after 10 p.m. on Tuesday night when Ilia Malinin finally took the ...

BOSTON — The 2025 world figure skating championships in Boston have come to a close, and they couldn't have gone much better ...

Ilia Malinin is the only person in figure skating history to successfully land the quad axel in international competition.

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin landed a record-tying six quadruple jumps in his free skate, taking a repeat world title to cap an undefeated season. Malinin totaled 318.56 points between Thursday's short ...

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin was standing ... Kagiyama is the reigning Olympic silver medalist and current Japanese champion, while Sato finished third behind Malinin at the prestigious Grand Prix ...