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Historical "firsts" | 2004-2014

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4everchan

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A thread was just started to show the evolution of the sport within the last decade. We saw many firsts (jumps etc) and medal winners from different countries.

2004-2014 was also a revolution in the sport, for instance with the new code of point, from the IJS.

Please feel free to share what was striking for you in this thread. (please include source)

For me, the biggest one was perhaps Virtue and Moir winning the Olympic gold in ice dance in 2010, a first for North American skaters.
 
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Yuna Kim
Kim never left the podium in her competitive career, becoming the first South Korean figure skater to medal at the Olympic Games, World Championships, ISU Grand Prix, and ISU Junior Grand Prix, all from 2004 to 2010.

In 2004, she won a gold medal at the 2004 JGP Hungary, her first international competition, and became the first Korean skater to win a Junior Grand Prix Event.

In 2005, she became the first Korean skater to win a medal (silver) at the world junior championships.

In 2006, she became the first Korean skater to win gold at the World junior championships.

2006, Skate Canada International, she became the first Korean to win a medal at a Senior GP (bronze)
Later that year, she became the first Korean to win gold at a Senior GP (T É B)
She also was the first Korean to win the GPF that season.

2007, she became the first Korean to win a medal at Senior Worlds (bronze)

2009, she became the first Korean to win Senior Worlds and to surpass 200 points.

2010, she became the first Korean to win Olympic gold.
 
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Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) was the first male Japanese figure skater to medal at an ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (bronze in 2005).


He was the first male Asian singles skater to
  • win a silver medal at an ISU World Championship (in 2007)
  • medal at the Olympic Games (bronze in 2010)
  • earn a gold medal at an ISU World Championship (in 2010)
  • earn a gold medal at an ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (in 2012)

He was the first male singles skater to have earned more than three titles at the NHK Trophy and is to date the only male singles skater to have earned five titles at the event (in 2006/ 2007/2010/2011/2013).



And this one is just outside the 2004-2014 timeframe, but I’ll include it for the sake of completeness:

Daisuke was the first male Asian singles skater to win the ISU World Junior Championships (in 2002).
 
4everchan said:
Kevin Reynolds is the first to
Land five quads in the same competition
4CC, 2013
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Hate to rain on your parade here, but both attempts in the short were < so not quads.

But Kevin still gets the first attempt of a 2+3 layout ever at the 2013 Canadian Nationals. There all jumps were deemed fully rotated by the tech panel and he did not fall, so that counts also as the first ever attempt of the 2+3 with all the jumps landed. The 4CC was the first ever attempt internationally of the 2+3 layout. The first comp was also actually the best for Kevin with the 2+3 layout, only 2 of them with negative GOE.

The first to get every jump absolutely right with 2+3 was Yuzuru Hanyu at 2015 NHK Trophy.

There aren't that many quad firsts for this period because early IJS was pretty hard on quads, but here's a couple:

First to attempt 100 quads in competition: Evgeni Plushenko ca. 2003–04.
First to attempt 100 quads in international competition: Evgeni Plushenko ca. 2005–06.

Brian Joubert has often been attributed with this record, but he got over 100 only in the 2012-13 season. That feat was just celebrated by the French fed so that got into news, so there is a record for it which has been regarded as an absolute record, but no. He could be the first to get 100 fully rotated quads in international competition though - some are 6.0 though, so remains a bit uncertain.

First known 4F attempt at a competition: Daisuke Takahashi at the 2010 Worlds. He never got one clean, but he was the first to try.

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Hate to rain on your parade here, but both attempts in the short were < so not quads.

But Kevin still gets the first attempt of a 2+3 layout ever at the 2013 Canadian Nationals. There all jumps were deemed fully rotated by the tech panel and he did not fall, so that counts also as the first ever attempt of the 2+3 with all the jumps landed. The 4CC was the first ever attempt internationally of the 2+3 layout. The first comp was also actually the best for Kevin with the 2+3 layout, only 2 of them with negative GOE.
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Yes. i see now that the short program quads were under... however, it seems to have been "accepted" by a lot of sources... perhaps because he did it at Canadian Nationals ? I took the source from wiki... so I blame myself for trusting them but before looking, it's Kevin's name that always rang as the one to first achieve that, probably because it was in a very dramatic way, winning the title against Yuzuru Hanyu.
 
Well, people seem to like to think that any quad attempt that the skater manages to to stay on their feet is worth celebrating (particularly these days). I have seen even downgrades treated as if they're landed quads....

I think the way the jumps are very often talked and written about "Kurt Browning landed the first 4T in 1988" makes it seem as it the landing is the important part and not that it has to be both fully rotated and landed. Had landing been the deciding criteria, then Fadeev's first ever (known) quad attempt in competition in 1983 would have been it, because he stayed on his feet. The same with Sabovcik's 1985 attempt and with some others before Kurt.

It is also funny that there is no score for Brandon Mroz's first 4Lz - at least there is the video where you can see that it was very likely fully rotated...

I also remembered another early IJS first:

Virtue/Moir got the first 10,00 in PCS in any discipline at the 2009 Skate Canada, for the free dance. The judge who awarded it is Finland's Mika Saarelainen who has confessed to this in interviews. :biggrin:

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TallyT said:
Yuzuru Hanyu...
- the first Japanese man, in fact first Asian man to win Olympic Gold in figure skating (2014 Olympics)
- the first skater to score 100 points in the short program (2014 Olympics)

ISU bio, Olympic website and Wikipedia list
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To add to this list for the defined period, Yuzuru Hanyu was also the first Asian (and Japanese) man to win Olympics, Worlds and Grand Prix Final all in the same season (2013-2014) which is quite an achievement:)
Still, most of his achievements happened in the next decade, of course, so they are listed in the other thread :)

ISU bio, Olympic website and Wikipedia list
 
Thank you to all for contributing! The jumps/elements are easy to find. It's the "firsts" for mostly ISU Championships medals by country :)
 
4everchan said:
2009, she became the first Korean to win Senior Worlds and to surpass 200 points.
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She was the first woman to surpass 200 period.

She was also the first woman to surpass 150 in the FS at Vancouver.

She was also the first woman to surpass 210 at the 2009 Trophée Éric Bompard.

She was also the first woman to surpass 220 in Vancouver.

By the time Yuna Kim scored 228, her best peers were barely breaking 200.

With a record of 228.56 under the old scoring system she would still have been world champion and have the highest total from any skate (ratified internationally by the ISU) in the last 3 years.
 
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