“Malinin is a phenomenon in figure skating. I don’t quite understand how he does it” – figure skater Tsipukhina

Figure skater Ekaterina Tsipukhina said in an interview with that she is competing for the United States. Ilya Malinin is a phenomenon in this sport.

Malinin was born in the United States to the family of Russian figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov. This season, Malinin won the ISU Grand Prix Final; last year he won bronze at the World Championships and won the United States Championships.

— Today, very little girls are already doing quadruple jumps. You started a little later, is that a problem?

– Yes, it’s true. But that doesn’t bother you, the main thing is to get started. Not everything is perfect, but I’m working on the stability of the quads.

— Any objectives for studying other quadruple jumps?

— There are many objectives, we will examine them in threes. If something goes really well, we’ll try to do it four times.

— In show jumping, many admire Malinin.

— Ilya is a figure skating phenomenon. I don’t quite understand how he does it. No one had done a quadruple axel before him. What admiration!

— When you first tried four-turn jumps, were you afraid?

“It’s not easy to fall because of such elements; there have been bad times.” There was also fear, but when you start teaching, it disappears. Without quads, it is now difficult to participate in junior competitions,” Tsipukhina said in an interview with .

Previously, Tsipukhina took 5th place at the Russian Junior Championships in Saransk.