US prodigy Ilia Malinin drills six quads to win first world figure skating title - Figure skating - Quad god - Gold metal - World championship 2024, Montreal - Quebec - Malinin is the first and only skater to land a fully-rotated quadruple Axel, widely regarded as the hardest jump in figure skating, in international competition. [1] He accomplished this feat at his first attempt at the 2022 CS U.S. International Classic, and repeated the feat for his senior Grand Prix debut one month later at Skate America. Malinin is also known for his Instagram handle "quadg0d, " which he adopted in late 2020 as inspiration for the quadruple jumps that he was striving to learn (Wikipedia) -
