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Ilia Malinin

Acting Born Dec 2, 2004 Fairfax, Virginia, USA 12 credits

Biography

Ilia Malinin (born December 2, 2004), colloquially known as the Quad God, is an American figure skater. He is a 2026 Olympic Games team event gold medalist, three-time World champion (2024, 2025, 2026), three-time Grand Prix Final champion (2023, 2024, 2025), seven-time Grand Prix gold medalist, four-time Challenger Series gold medalist, and four-time U.S. national champion (2023–26). At the junior level, Malinin is the 2022 World Junior champion and a two-time Junior Grand Prix gold medalist. He holds the current world junior record for the men's free skate and combined score, as well as the senior record for the men's free skate.

Malinin is the only skater to successfully land a fully rotated quadruple Axel in international competition, accomplishing this feat at the 2022 CS U.S. International Classic and performing it multiple times since.In September 2022, he was named to Time magazine's Time 100 Next List. He is nicknamed "Quad God", a reference to his signature quadruple jumps. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ilia Malinin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known for

Good Morning America

as Self
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Toast to Milan

as Self

Frequent co-stars

Adam Rippon 1 shared title
Alysa Liu 1 shared title
Amber Glenn 1 shared title
Isabeau Levito 1 shared title
Andrew Torgashev 1 shared title
Maxim Naumov 1 shared title
Madison Chock 1 shared title
Evan Bates 1 shared title
Emilea Zingas 1 shared title
Vadym Kolesnik 1 shared title

Career timeline

Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Prague 2026Figure Skating Exhibition Gala | Milano Cortina 2026Toast to Milan
Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Boston 2025Legacy on Ice
Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Montréal 2024
Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Saitama 2023
ISU Figure Skating AwardsISU Figure Skating AwardsISU Figure Skating AwardsISU Figure Skating Awards
Good Morning America

Full filmography

  • Good Morning America (1975) as Self
  • ISU Figure Skating Awards (2020) as Self - Winner: Best Costume
  • ISU Figure Skating Awards (2020) as Self - Winner: Most Entertaining Programme / Skater of the Year
  • ISU Figure Skating Awards (2020) as Self - Winner: Most Valuable Skater / Performer
  • ISU Figure Skating Awards (2020) as Self - Winner: Special Achievement Award / Performer
  • Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Boston 2025 (2025) as Self
  • Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Montréal 2024 (2024) as Self
  • Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Saitama 2023 (2023) as Self
  • Exhibition Gala | ISU World Championships | Prague 2026 (2026) as Self
  • Figure Skating Exhibition Gala | Milano Cortina 2026 (2026) as Self
  • Toast to Milan (2026) as Self
  • Legacy on Ice (2025) as Self