“I would like to see Malinin’s confrontation with one of the Russians. Our guys are not far from all the quads either” – Enbert

Olympic silver medalist Alexandre Enbert in a conversation with , he expressed hope that Russian skaters will be able to compete with Americans in the near future Ilya Malinin .

Malinin was the first in history to perform all six types of quadruple jumps in official competitions. On Saturday, the 19-year-old skater won the ISU Grand Prix final in Beijing, scoring 314.66 points for two programs.

— In sport, there is always room to develop and something to invent – ​​possible stunts, combinations. It’s hard to imagine that a sport could stop. Ilya made a historic event, it’s nice to watch it, it’s nice to see how an athlete overcomes himself, the laws of physics and creates such cool content.

It is difficult to say who from Russia is closest to him; there is strong competition in our men’s single skating. It would be interesting to see their confrontation, I would like to imagine a meeting between Malinin and one of our athletes. Our guys are also moving forward, doing difficult content, all the quads are not far away either,” Enbert told .

Malinin was born in the United States to the family of Russian figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov. They performed at union and Russian tournaments, and then represented Uzbekistan.