Leonova: “Malinin is a unique person. I think it won’t be long before someone repeats his feats.

World Championships silver medalist Alena Leonova named American figure skater Ilya Malinina a unique person.

Malinin won the world championship for the first time last week, becoming the best of the Montreal tournament. During the free program, the 19-year-old skater performed six quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel. He set a world record for most points scored in freestyle, with 227.79 points.

— This world championship can be called the Malinin world championship. When I watched his performance, his quadruple jumps looked like triple jumps – he performed them with such ease! And the jumps, the pirouettes and the program, all together, gave the maximum points. It was a shock to me that he could do all these ultras so easily.

He is a unique person. I think it won’t be long before his exploits are repeated. A colossal amount of work has been done, it is clear that his way of skating consistently throughout the season took a long time to develop. It seems to me that for a long time no one will be able to conquer so many quadruples in one program and do them so cleanly,” Leonova quotes Leonova in the “Championship”.

Malinin was born in the United States to the family of figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov, who competed for Uzbekistan.

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