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

Ilia Malinin won his second consecutive World Figure Skating Championship men's title in front of a home crowd in Boston ...

The defending world champion said he was more unsettled than usual, but it didn't stop him from nailing his elements in the ...

The Fairfax, Va., native changed his jump layout on the fly, landing six quadruple jumps, including the Axel, in the free skate at TD Garden to win his second-consecutive world men’s title ...

Ilia Malinin won the World Figure Skating Championship title for the second consecutive time. The self-proclaimed "Quad God", ...

Ilia Malinin claimed a second consecutive world figure skating title, landing six quadruple jumps in a jaw-dropping ...

U.S. skater Ilia Malinin clinched his second world title with an impressive six quadruple jumps in Boston, setting the stage for the 2026 Milano-Cortina Olympics. Despite narrowly missing a seven-quad ...

BOSTON — Ilia Malinin could attempt as many as seven ... One of them could be the famous jump that only he can pull off: The quad axel. Malinin, 20, is the only person in figure skating history ...

This means the quad axel actually consists of 4.5 rotations, rather than four. No skater has ever landed a quintuple jump. Tara Lipinski takes a closer look at Ilia Malinin’s quad axel by the ...