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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Ilia Malinin, the self-proclaimed "Quad God," lived up to his nickname ... landed a quadruple Axel and five other quadruple jumps to claim the men's title by a commanding margin.

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

Malinin landed six quadruple jumps, including the quad Axel, on his way to claiming gold in Boston Jurij Kodrun - International Skating Union/International Skating Union via Getty Ilia Malinin ...

The U.S. figure skater won his second straight world championship gold medal on Saturday, and it wasn’t even close.

Ilia Malinin won a second straight world title Saturday night, but felt upset that he had left something undone.