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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
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Figure skating career
Country United States
CoachTatiana Malinina
Roman Skorniakov
Rafael Arutyunyan
Skating clubWashington FSC
Began skating2011

Ilia Malinin (born December 2, 2004) is an American figure skater. He is the 2021 CS Cup of Austria bronze medalist and 2022 U.S. national silver medalist. On the junior level, he is the 2022 World Junior champion, 2021 JGP France I champion, and 2021 JGP Austria champion. He competed in the final segment at the 2020 World Junior Championships. He currently holds the world junior record for the men's short program, men's free skate, and men's combined total.

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,[1] 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.[2] He is fluent in Russian and English.[3] As of 2021, Malinin attends George C. Marshall High School.[1]

Malinin admires his mother's skating, as well as Evgeni Plushenko, Nathan Chen, and Mikhail Kolyada.[3] He also looks up to Yuzuru Hanyu.[4]

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.[1]

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.[3] 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.[5] As a result of his placement, he was invited to participate in the Las Vegas Invitational, where he helped Team Tara defeat Team Johnny.[6] Malinin was unable to compete at the 2021 U.S. Championships after missing the qualifying competition with an injury.

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."[7] 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.[8] However, the Final would later be cancelled due to travel restrictions prompted by the Omicron variant.[9]

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.[10]

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."[11] 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.[12] 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."[13]

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.[10] 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.[14] 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.[15] 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."[16]

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.[17] He entered the event as the heavy favourite for the gold medal based on a strong season.[18] In the short program he skated cleanly and set a new junior world record of 88.99.[19]

Records and Achievements

Junior world record scores

Ilia has set the junior world record scores one time under the current +5 / -5 GOE (Grade of Execution) system.

Junior men's short program
Date Score Event Note
April 14, 2022 88.99 2022 World Junior Championships Current junior world record

Programs

Season Short program Free skating
2021–2022
2020–2021
[20]
2019–2020
[21]

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[10]
Event 18–19 19–20 20–21 21–22
Worlds 9th
GP Skate America 5th
CS Cup of Austria 3rd
Challenge Cup 1st
International: Junior[10]
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[22]
Asian Open 1st
Golden Bear 2nd
National[22]
U.S. Champ. 3rd N WD 2nd
Eastern Sect. 1st N 2nd J
South Atlantic 2nd N
TBD = Assigned; WD = Withdrew
Levels: N = Novice; J = Junior

Pre-international debut

National[22]
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

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

  1. ^ a b c "Ilia Malinin". U.S. Figure Skating.
  2. ^ Hersh, Philip (March 21, 2022). "Ilia Malinin, the "quadg0d," seems heaven-sent for U.S. figure skating". NBC Sports.
  3. ^ a b c "В России выше конкуренция, потому что кататься не так дорого». Интервью американского фигуриста Ильи Малинина" ["Competition is stronger in Russia, because it is not so expensive to skate." Interview with American figure skater Ilia Malinin]. Sport24.ru (in Russian). March 25, 2020.
  4. ^ Dombrowski, Judith (January 4, 2022). ""I dream of landing the quad Axel one day" – meet USA's rising star Ilia Malinin". Absolute Skating.
  5. ^ "Inside the Las Vegas Bubble: What We Learned From Skate America". Team USA. United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee. October 26, 2020.
  6. ^ "Top U.S. skaters return to competition ice for Las Vegas Invitational". NBC Sports. November 13, 2020.
  7. ^ "USA celebrates gold medal sweep as ISU Junior Grand Prix starts in Courchevel". International Skating Union. August 23, 2021.
  8. ^ "Skaters grab last spots for the ISU Junior Grand Prix Final in Linz (AUT)". International Skating Union. October 11, 2021.
  9. ^ "Figure skating Grand Prix Final cancelled over travel rules". CBC Sports. December 2, 2021.
  10. ^ a b c d "Competition Results: Ilia MALININ". International Skating Union.
  11. ^ Slater, Paula (January 9, 2022). "Chen seizes sixth consecutive U.S. national title". Golden Skate.
  12. ^ Powers, John (January 9, 2022). "Why did US Figure Skating deny 17-year-old rising star Ilia Malinin a spot on the Olympic team?". Boston Globe.
  13. ^ Hersh, Phil (January 9, 2022). "Brilliance at nationals unsurprisingly not enough to earn Ilia Malinin an Olympic spot". NBC Sports.
  14. ^ Campigotto, Jesse (March 22, 2022). "Get ready for a bizarre figure skating world championships". CBC Sports.
  15. ^ Slater, Paula (March 24, 2022). "Shoma leads men at Worlds in possible Japanese sweep". Golden Skate.
  16. ^ Slater, Paula (March 26, 2022). "Japan's Shoma Uno wins gold in Montpellier". Golden Skate.
  17. ^ "ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships 2022 allotted to Tallinn (EST)". International Skating Union. March 4, 2022.
  18. ^ "2022 World Junior Championships". International Figure Skating.
  19. ^ Slater, Paula (April 14, 2022). "USA's Ilia Malinin sets record at Junior Worlds". Golden Skate.
  20. ^ "Ilia MALININ: 2020/2021". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on May 15, 2021.
  21. ^ "Ilia MALININ: 2019/2020". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on June 30, 2020.
  22. ^ a b c "Ilia MALININ". RinkResults.
World Junior Record Holders
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14 April 2022 – present 		Succeeded by
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