The Quad God took home gold for the third straight time in this year’s World Championships in Prague.
The Quad God has done it. U.S. figure skating star Ilia Malinin returned to the ice for the 2026 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechia, where he triumphantly clinched a three-peat in the competition just a month after his Olympic heartbreaker.
Looking like a more confident and suave version of himself, Malinin skated his way to gold for his third straight world title on Saturday. He beat Japan’s Yuma Kagiyama and Shun Sato for the crown with a total score of 329.40; Kagiyama took home silver while Sato took home bronze .in Milan in which Malinin squandered a five-point lead entering the free skate, the 21-year-old star tasted relief and redemption in a masterful final performance on the ice in Prague. Malinin is back on top of the world, where he rightfully deserves to be. Relive all the action from the men’s free skate final at the 2026 World Championships, including Malinin’s three-peat victory, inKristen Wong is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020 and has a bachelor’s in English and linguistics from Columbia University. Before joining SI in November 2023, Wong covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. She is a lifelong Liverpool fan who enjoys solving crossword puzzles and hanging out at her neighborhood dive bar in NYC.
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