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A couple of years ago a thread here at GS inspired me to start compiling a list of all the men who have tried or even trained quads since the beginning of times. That resulted in a list of names, but also in a list of jumps. The project has expanded almost uncontrollably along the way and there seems to be no end to it… But I have tried also to analyze the information and as we are approaching the 40th anniversary of the first documented quad in competition, it is time to start publishing it.
The numbers at the moment:
Men
425 have tried a quad in competition
35 at least have trained or are training to get a quad
1008 attempts in the 6.0/early IJS
12334 attempts in the IJS era
Women
51 have tried a quad in competition
?? have trained or are training – this is still work in progress
21 attempts in the 6.0/early IJS
636 attempts in the IJS era
Shoma Uno (JPN) is the most frequent flier with 308 attempts by the end of 2022. There are 19 skaters with a 100 or more quad attempts in international competition – Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) was the first in 2005 and Daniel Grassl (ITA) most recent last fall.
Nathan Chen (USA) is the Quad King when it comes to variety, quantity, and quality put together. He has landed cleanly 5 different quads and has 133 quads with positive GOE in international competition. His success rate in the international scene is 70,4 %. Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) gets close with 4 cleanly landed quad types, 132 clean quads internationally, and success rate at 67,0 %. Javier Fernandez (ESP) gets the third spot which is amazing considering that he only ever did 2 different quads, but he has 105 clean ones and success rate at 64,8 %.
I will possibly start calling Ilia Malinin (USA) the Quad God when he 1) gets the last type (4Lo) done cleanly and 2) puts all six different quads in one free program. He has still some work to do with the quantity and quality department.
The numbers and names become also a quadstory with at least 5 phases.
The first is a sort of a prehistory of training and dreaming that lasts from the 1960s until 1983. (Read about it at Skate Guard or, a little updated, at Fascinatio Glaciei).
The second phase covers the early competition history from Alexandre Fadeev (USSR) on March 10, 1983, until the end of season in 1995–96. Very slow development which finishes in a rapid change the following season – suddenly feverish quad activity for about 6 seasons. The number of attempts per season is doubled almost regularly, the number of skaters trying grows fast, and different quad types get tried. This is the point in time when quads become important and risk taking starts to be appreciated. The IJS has really nothing to do with it, it just documents the development that had started more than a half a decade before.
The third phase is the first decade of the IJS which is marked by total stagnation. Only 4T and 4S attempts until the early 2010s. The numbers of jumps and skaters per season remain at a lower level than at the end of the 6.0 era.
This ends in the fourth phase in the mid-2010s. The quad wars were a real thing and a lot of us probably remember the rapid development with 2016–18 being some of the craziest times. Even the women wake up and start working on those quads!
Which brings us to the post-pandemic times. The Olympic season 2021–22 was the all-time record one for quantity of quad attempts: 1932 attempts (probably more because you can never get all the results) from regional competitions in the domestic scenes to the Olympics. By juniors and seniors alike – and actually some novice skaters, too. The number of current skaters who have attempted a quad in competition is 234 – the number of all the retired quadsters is 239. Even the 4A gets done in a glorious fashion which no one would have expected to happen any time soon.
Curious to see what happens with women and what will ISU do about the rather unhealthy tendency of little kids training and jumping quads in competition.
I will update the full stories and data at Fascinatio Glaciei... Thanks for all the help and discussions and encouragement in this project, feel free to comment and correct me when you finds funny stuff!
Eppen
The numbers at the moment:
Men
425 have tried a quad in competition
35 at least have trained or are training to get a quad
1008 attempts in the 6.0/early IJS
12334 attempts in the IJS era
Women
51 have tried a quad in competition
?? have trained or are training – this is still work in progress
21 attempts in the 6.0/early IJS
636 attempts in the IJS era
Shoma Uno (JPN) is the most frequent flier with 308 attempts by the end of 2022. There are 19 skaters with a 100 or more quad attempts in international competition – Evgeni Plushenko (RUS) was the first in 2005 and Daniel Grassl (ITA) most recent last fall.
Nathan Chen (USA) is the Quad King when it comes to variety, quantity, and quality put together. He has landed cleanly 5 different quads and has 133 quads with positive GOE in international competition. His success rate in the international scene is 70,4 %. Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) gets close with 4 cleanly landed quad types, 132 clean quads internationally, and success rate at 67,0 %. Javier Fernandez (ESP) gets the third spot which is amazing considering that he only ever did 2 different quads, but he has 105 clean ones and success rate at 64,8 %.
I will possibly start calling Ilia Malinin (USA) the Quad God when he 1) gets the last type (4Lo) done cleanly and 2) puts all six different quads in one free program. He has still some work to do with the quantity and quality department.
The numbers and names become also a quadstory with at least 5 phases.
The first is a sort of a prehistory of training and dreaming that lasts from the 1960s until 1983. (Read about it at Skate Guard or, a little updated, at Fascinatio Glaciei).
The second phase covers the early competition history from Alexandre Fadeev (USSR) on March 10, 1983, until the end of season in 1995–96. Very slow development which finishes in a rapid change the following season – suddenly feverish quad activity for about 6 seasons. The number of attempts per season is doubled almost regularly, the number of skaters trying grows fast, and different quad types get tried. This is the point in time when quads become important and risk taking starts to be appreciated. The IJS has really nothing to do with it, it just documents the development that had started more than a half a decade before.
The third phase is the first decade of the IJS which is marked by total stagnation. Only 4T and 4S attempts until the early 2010s. The numbers of jumps and skaters per season remain at a lower level than at the end of the 6.0 era.
This ends in the fourth phase in the mid-2010s. The quad wars were a real thing and a lot of us probably remember the rapid development with 2016–18 being some of the craziest times. Even the women wake up and start working on those quads!
Which brings us to the post-pandemic times. The Olympic season 2021–22 was the all-time record one for quantity of quad attempts: 1932 attempts (probably more because you can never get all the results) from regional competitions in the domestic scenes to the Olympics. By juniors and seniors alike – and actually some novice skaters, too. The number of current skaters who have attempted a quad in competition is 234 – the number of all the retired quadsters is 239. Even the 4A gets done in a glorious fashion which no one would have expected to happen any time soon.
Curious to see what happens with women and what will ISU do about the rather unhealthy tendency of little kids training and jumping quads in competition.
I will update the full stories and data at Fascinatio Glaciei... Thanks for all the help and discussions and encouragement in this project, feel free to comment and correct me when you finds funny stuff!
Eppen
