Japan's Midori Ito, the 1989 World champion and 1992 Olympic silver medalist, was the first lady to land a triple Axel in international competition at the 1988 NHK Trophy.
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Which ladies are working on triple Axels and who is your favorite?
Other firsts:
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Which ladies are working on triple Axels and who is your favorite?
Other firsts:
- Tonya Harding (USA) was the second woman to land a triple Axel jump in competition at 1991 Skate America. She was also the first woman to successfully execute two triple Axels in a single competition, and the first to complete a triple Axel in combination with a double toe loop.
- Ludmila Nelidina (RUS) became the first European lady to land a triple Axel in competition at 2002 Skate America.
- Yukari Nakano (JPN) became the third lady to land a triple Axel at an ISU sanctioned competition at 2002 Skate America.
- Kimmie Meissner (USA) became the second American lady to land a triple Axel in competition at the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.
- Mao Asada (JPN) was the first junior ladies competitor in history to land the triple Axel jump successfully, at the 2004–05 Junior Grand Prix Final. This feat was next accomplished by fellow Japanese skater Rika Kihira who landed the jump at the 2016 JGP Ljubljana.
- Mao Asada (JPN) made history at the 2008-09 Grand Prix Final when she became the first woman to land two triple Axels in the same program in an ISU competition. She was also the first woman to land three triple Axels in the same competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
- Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS) 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) at 2015 Worlds.
- Rika Kihira (JPN) became the first lady to land a triple Axel combination (triple Axel-triple toe) in an ISU international event at the 2017-18 Junior Grand Prix Final.
- Mirai Nagasu (USA) landed the triple Axel jump at the 2017 Rostelecom Cup in Moscow, Russia. She was also the first female athlete from the United States ever to land the triple Axel jump during an Olympic competition, at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
- Alysa Liu (USA) landed the triple Axel jump at the 2018 CS Asian Figure Skating Trophy, making her the youngest female athlete in history to land the jump successfully in international competition, at 12 years old.
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