Ilia Malinin doesn’t back down. When all of his jumping passes at last month’s Grand Prix Final were judged to contain under-rotation, he still had a sweatshirt made that reproduced the scoresheet, a memento of his having tried a free skate program with unprecedented difficulty.

World champion Ilia Malinin cruised to his third consecutive U.S. Figure Skating Championship on Sunday, landing six of his seven planned quad jumps in the free skate.

He might've planned to land seven quads, but the reigning World champion romped to another national crown by hitting on six of them.

His top international rivals try three or four quads in free skates.Malinin totaled 333.31 points, prevailing by 46.82 over runner-up Andrew Torgashev. They're joined on the three-man team for March's World Championships in Boston by two-time Olympian Jason Brown,