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Ilia Malinin

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Ilia Malinin is an American figure skater, born in Fairfax County, Virginia, in 2004, the son of two Olympic skaters, Tatiana Malinina and Roman Skorniakov. He won gold with the United States in the team event at the 2026 Olympic Games, and he is a three-time World champion, in 2024, 2025 and 2026, a three-time Grand Prix Final champion and a four-time U.S. national champion from 2023 to 2026. At the junior level he won the 2022 World Junior title. He is the only skater to have landed a fully rotated quadruple Axel in international competition, first doing so at the 2022 CS U.S. International Classic, and he is nicknamed the Quad God for his quadruple jumps. In September 2022 he was named to the Time 100 Next list of Time magazine.

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2004 1
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Male 1
Medals or Titles Band
1 1
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is an American figure skater
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1. Olympedia: Ilia Malinin
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  • Biographical information, born
    Born 2 December 2004
  • Biographical information, sex
    Sex Male
  • Medals table, Olympic Games
    Gold 1 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 1
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Ilia Malinin (Wikipedia)
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    is an American figure skater
  • Competed In: 2026 Winter Olympics, Career
    He is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist
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