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The base value of a single Axel is 1.10, a double Axel 3.30, a triple Axel 8.00, a quadruple Axel 12.50 and a quintuple Axel is 14. [ 8 ] Paulson was the first skater to accomplish an Axel, at the first international figure skating competition, which was held in Vienna in 1882, while wearing speed skates.
NBC figure skating commentators Tara Lipinski and Johnny ... stumbled on her triple axel. It was an uncharacteristic mistake that typically might have prompted a gasp and further video review on ...
Amber Glenn thought she'd thrown away her chances of winning her long-sought U.S. figure skating title when, after landing a dramatic opening triple axel Friday night, the 24-year-old from Texas ...
Skating to “I Will Find You The Return,” Glenn, second after the short program, opened with a clean triple axel and reeled off six clean triples to overtake Japan’s Mone Chiba with a ...
A double or triple Axel is required in the short program and an Axel is required in the free program for junior and senior single skaters in all ISU competitions. [39]: 18 The Axel has an extra half-rotation which, as figure skating expert Hannah Robbins says, makes a triple Axel "more a quadruple jump than a triple". [50]
At the 2015 World Championships, she landed a triple axel in competition for the first time, making her the sixth woman, and second Russian woman to do so, and she became the first female skater to land four triple jumps in a short program (triple Axel, triple Lutz, and a triple toe-triple toe combination). [2]
Amber Glenn is on course for her first figure skating Grand Prix win after taking a big lead in the short program at the French round of the series on Friday. Glenn, of the United States, was the ...
Harding would finish second behind Kristi Yamaguchi and in front of Nancy Kerrigan, marking the first time one country swept the ladies' medal podium at the World Figure Skating Championships. [19] At the September 1991 Skate America competition, Harding recorded three more firsts: The first ever woman to complete a triple Axel in the short ...