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Glenn, of the United States, was the only skater in the women's event to land a triple axel on her way to 78.14 points, taking the lead by more than seven points from South Korea's Kim Chaeyeon on ...
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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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]
She was the first ladies' skater to perform a triple-triple jump combination and the first to perform the triple Axel. In March 1990, Jill Trenary said, "I was in awe of how high she jumps." [ 7 ] In 1990, Scott Hamilton said "it will be 50 years before we see anything like Midori Ito again," [ 29 ] and Toller Cranston, the same year, noted ...
The 18-year-old Yoshida stepped out of her opening triple axel but landed all her other jumps to finish with 139.32 points in the free skate for a total of 203.97. “After my triple axel I was a ...