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Correction/clarification: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that Ilia Malinin is the only person to land six quads in a program. Nathan Chen also has landed six quads in ...

He won comfortably by 31.09 over Mikhail Shaidorov, a 20-year-old from Kazakhstan who had four quads in a personal best free skate. It’s the second-largest margin of victory in men’s history under a ...

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Malinin defended his world title in mesmerizing and dominant fashion at the 2025 world championships in Boston, landing six quads during his free skate before laying in the middle of the ice ...

But afterward, all Malinin, 20, could think about was the one that had eluded him. After landing four quads in the first 90 seconds of his free skate—a flip, an axel, a lutz and a loop—he got ...

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The short answer is that quads, in general, are extremely difficult − even for most Olympic skaters. And the axel is the most difficult of the jumps because of the front-facing takeoff.

No one else in the world has done it in international competition. No one else has landed all six types of quads in one program, either. For years, the top skaters in the world could only dream of ...

Ilia Malinin did not achieve his goal of landing seven quads in the same program. But he did land six, something that only he has done before: Quad flip, quad axel, quad lutz, quad loop ...