MOSCOW, Oct 23 American figure skater Ilya Malinin said he was shocked by his result at the US Grand Prix, where he managed to perform a quadruple axel for the second time in history. Malinin, with a total of 280.37 points, won the home stage of the Grand Prix in men's single skating, where he took fourth place after a short program. In the free skate, the skater landed five quadruple jumps, including the Axel. «I'm still in shock and I really don't know how I did it. I just trusted my skills and it worked well. When I got on the ice to warm up, I knew that I would go for it. I didn’t even wonder whether I should do it or not, «- quotes Malinin olympics.com. For the first time, Malinin performed this element cleanly in mid-September at the U.S. International Classic, where he also took first place. Earlier, the four-and-a-half-turn axel with two errors on the road during a free program at the Japanese Championship was performed by two-time Olympic champion Japanese Yuzuru Hanyu. Malinin was born in the United States in the family of figure skaters Tatyana Malinina and Roman Skornyakov. Athletes are natives of Russia, in the 1990s they began to represent Uzbekistan, since 1998 they have been living in the United States.
