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I think that after a month in the new season, results for the previous one might not appear anymore and the quad statistics for the 2023-24 season can perhaps be published. (2022-23 in the archived threads.)
Note that the data for this post was collected from several sources including Skating Scores, Rink Results, etc. (< This is what GS thinks I do. What I actually do is check the official results pages for events often through the feds or for Russia also allskate.info. SS and RR provide info mostly for eg Korea, China and some minor European countries. Those big databases do not collect enough national events data to be really useful at the moment.)
At the moment my list of quads since 1983 covers almost 17400 quad attempts and my best estimate is that some 800 or so more jumps could have been attempted esp. in the late 1990s and 2000s (Russia and China domestic events are poorly documented for the most part).
Total 2431 attempts in national and international competitions (2022–23: 2018). 766 in international and 1665 in national competitions. The number of domestic attempts keeps growing – 2022–23 was the first season when there were more domestic vs. international attempts. The main reason for this is of course the Russian ban from international competition, but there are also more domestic attempts in other countries.
This is also the all-time high!
(If you have followed my previous statistics posts and wonder about the changing annual totals, then wonder no more: I have just done more research and gone through some national results databases, most notably the Japanse local competitions. The Japanese Fed has my particular love and admiration for publicizing ALL results in the IJS system (and then some): https://www.jsfresults.com/PastResults/PastDefaults/fs/index.htm)
Total 334 attempts by women (2022–23: 300).
Total 225 skaters tried at least one quad last season (2022–23: 194).
Total 70 skaters attempted a quad for the first time (2022–23: 63).
A date of birth could be found for 53 skaters and their ages at the first time ranged from 10 to 24 years, average age for all 15,1 years (men 16,8 and women 12,8 years). The youngest were three Russian girls (Askarova, Sopova, Zaikina) and the oldest Tomas Llorenc Guarino Sabate (ESP).
(2022–23: date of birth for 51 skaters and age range was 9 to 23 years. The average age at first attempt for all was 14,8 years, for men 16,6 years and for women 12,0.)
Total 50 women attempted quads (2022–23: 38). Of these 24 were newbies (2022–23: 22).
The most attempts by a male skater: 61 by Kao Miura (JPN) (2022–23: Ilia Malinin (USA) 54).
(Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) was the first skater ever to get over 60 attempts in one season, but then Miura competed in Japan one more time in April and went ahead by one jump.)
The most attempts by a female skater: 34 by Elena Kostyleva (RUS) (2022–23: Margarita Bazyluyk (RUS) 34).
Breakdown by age group/national/international competition:
Total 168 attempts at novice level competitions (all in Russia, I counted also the Elements section jumps).
Total 523 attempts at junior competitions (49 international and 474 national of which 402 in Russia).
Total 1740 attempts at senior competitions (1023 national – 651 in Russia; 717 international).
(Here it is good to remember that at domestic competitions, talented young skaters often get permissions to participate in the competitions to older age groups, so the counts do not reflect perfectly the ages of the skaters.)
Breakdown of women’s attempts by age group and country:
Novice 105 (all in Russia by 19 skaters).
Junior 180 (162 in Russia by 28 skaters, 18 elsewhere by 3 skaters (BLR, JPN, USA).
Senior 49 (26 in Russia by 7 skaters, 23 elsewhere by 5 skaters (BLR, JPN, USA).
(I also went through all the women’s attempts ever according to their ages. There were 1106 attempts by skaters whose year of birth was known and of these 809 (73%) were by skaters at 14 years of age or below, that is junior or novice. The below 17-year old juniors account for further 71 attempts. Senior women have attempted 225 (20%) quads, 87 of them by 15-year olds before the age limit was changed or by senior eligible skaters younger than 17.)
By jump type:
4T 1262
4S 783
4Lo 76
4F 67
4Lz 238
4A 5
90 skaters tried 2 or more different quads: 65 attempted 2 types, 20 3 types, 4 4 types and Ilia Malinin (USA) went for 5. (Still feeling sorry for the 4F which Ilia did not invite to the party.)
Quad layouts SP+FS attempted:
0+1 405, 0+2 135, 0+3 38, 0+4 4, 0+5 1 (novice, junior, and women mostly, the 0+5 was by Ilia Malinin (USA) at Japan Open which only has free skate).
1+1 164, 1+2 102, 1+3 17, 1+4 2 (senior men).
2+1 10, 2+2 44, 2+3 64, 2+4 39, 2+5 1, 2+6 2 (senior men) (2+5 by Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) and 2+6s by Ilia Malinin (USA)).
Ilia Malinin (USA) became the first skater to finish a 2+6 quad layout with all postive GOEs at the Worlds.
Then career totals landmarks achieved this season:
Shoma Uno (JPN) finished his career with a staggering 346 quad attempts (292 internationals and 53 domestic attempts) – no one else comes near.
Boyang Jin (CHN) became the second skater to get over 250 quad attempts and ended the season with 267 attempts.
Morisi Kvitelashvili (GEO) competed at Japan Open in the fall and managed to get over 200 international attempts after retiring from competition (he was the 3rd to get the 200).
Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) got over 150 international attempts (he was the 8th).
Kazuki Tomono (JPN), Ilia Malinin (USA) and Junhwan Cha (KOR) got together 100 international attempts (skaters 21 to 23 to do this).
I have so far used the number of international attempts as a benchmark since there are skaters in the 1990s and 2000s for whom there is no info on domestic attempts and in that way the international attempts are a more reliable tool to evaluate quantity. But now that the Russian ban has spanned two seasons, I am beginning to wonder if that should change. I am doing the whole career totals for women anyway already because most women’s quads get attempted at domestic events.
However, there are only 3 Russian men who have passed the 100 domestic attempts ever (all these during the ban): Makar Ignatov (123), Roman Savosin (108) and Andrei Mozalev (107). The Russian man with most attempts overall is Dmitri Aliev with 178 quads (91 international and 87 domestic). Ignatov is next with 165 and then Alexander Samarin with 162 (he got to 94 international). Some older skaters have gotten over 100 internationally: Plushenko, Menshov, Voronov, Kovtun and Kolyada. Samarin and Aliev might have been next in line to enter that list.
The quad revolution could be considered very close to complete for men - quads are attempted at all levels and in international and national competitions. I routinely have to check results down to novice competitions at least in Russia and Japan. There are very few skaters who can do well internationally without at least one quad.
What happens with women remains to be seen. Senior women are still mostly not attempting quads in competition - only about 1-2% of all women who have attempted quads have done so in their senior years (the international age limits applied here). Last season was pretty bad for senior women even in Russia. Quads are at the moment something that Russian pre-teen and early teen girls do in abundance, but others apparently cannot maintain them. It will be interesting to see what happens with eg Margarita Bazylyuk and Elena Kostyleva in the next couple of years...
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Note that the data for this post was collected from several sources including Skating Scores, Rink Results, etc. (< This is what GS thinks I do. What I actually do is check the official results pages for events often through the feds or for Russia also allskate.info. SS and RR provide info mostly for eg Korea, China and some minor European countries. Those big databases do not collect enough national events data to be really useful at the moment.)
At the moment my list of quads since 1983 covers almost 17400 quad attempts and my best estimate is that some 800 or so more jumps could have been attempted esp. in the late 1990s and 2000s (Russia and China domestic events are poorly documented for the most part).
Total 2431 attempts in national and international competitions (2022–23: 2018). 766 in international and 1665 in national competitions. The number of domestic attempts keeps growing – 2022–23 was the first season when there were more domestic vs. international attempts. The main reason for this is of course the Russian ban from international competition, but there are also more domestic attempts in other countries.
This is also the all-time high!
(If you have followed my previous statistics posts and wonder about the changing annual totals, then wonder no more: I have just done more research and gone through some national results databases, most notably the Japanse local competitions. The Japanese Fed has my particular love and admiration for publicizing ALL results in the IJS system (and then some): https://www.jsfresults.com/PastResults/PastDefaults/fs/index.htm)
Total 334 attempts by women (2022–23: 300).
Total 225 skaters tried at least one quad last season (2022–23: 194).
Total 70 skaters attempted a quad for the first time (2022–23: 63).
A date of birth could be found for 53 skaters and their ages at the first time ranged from 10 to 24 years, average age for all 15,1 years (men 16,8 and women 12,8 years). The youngest were three Russian girls (Askarova, Sopova, Zaikina) and the oldest Tomas Llorenc Guarino Sabate (ESP).
(2022–23: date of birth for 51 skaters and age range was 9 to 23 years. The average age at first attempt for all was 14,8 years, for men 16,6 years and for women 12,0.)
Total 50 women attempted quads (2022–23: 38). Of these 24 were newbies (2022–23: 22).
The most attempts by a male skater: 61 by Kao Miura (JPN) (2022–23: Ilia Malinin (USA) 54).
(Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) was the first skater ever to get over 60 attempts in one season, but then Miura competed in Japan one more time in April and went ahead by one jump.)
The most attempts by a female skater: 34 by Elena Kostyleva (RUS) (2022–23: Margarita Bazyluyk (RUS) 34).
Breakdown by age group/national/international competition:
Total 168 attempts at novice level competitions (all in Russia, I counted also the Elements section jumps).
Total 523 attempts at junior competitions (49 international and 474 national of which 402 in Russia).
Total 1740 attempts at senior competitions (1023 national – 651 in Russia; 717 international).
(Here it is good to remember that at domestic competitions, talented young skaters often get permissions to participate in the competitions to older age groups, so the counts do not reflect perfectly the ages of the skaters.)
Breakdown of women’s attempts by age group and country:
Novice 105 (all in Russia by 19 skaters).
Junior 180 (162 in Russia by 28 skaters, 18 elsewhere by 3 skaters (BLR, JPN, USA).
Senior 49 (26 in Russia by 7 skaters, 23 elsewhere by 5 skaters (BLR, JPN, USA).
(I also went through all the women’s attempts ever according to their ages. There were 1106 attempts by skaters whose year of birth was known and of these 809 (73%) were by skaters at 14 years of age or below, that is junior or novice. The below 17-year old juniors account for further 71 attempts. Senior women have attempted 225 (20%) quads, 87 of them by 15-year olds before the age limit was changed or by senior eligible skaters younger than 17.)
By jump type:
4T 1262
4S 783
4Lo 76
4F 67
4Lz 238
4A 5
90 skaters tried 2 or more different quads: 65 attempted 2 types, 20 3 types, 4 4 types and Ilia Malinin (USA) went for 5. (Still feeling sorry for the 4F which Ilia did not invite to the party.)
Quad layouts SP+FS attempted:
0+1 405, 0+2 135, 0+3 38, 0+4 4, 0+5 1 (novice, junior, and women mostly, the 0+5 was by Ilia Malinin (USA) at Japan Open which only has free skate).
1+1 164, 1+2 102, 1+3 17, 1+4 2 (senior men).
2+1 10, 2+2 44, 2+3 64, 2+4 39, 2+5 1, 2+6 2 (senior men) (2+5 by Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) and 2+6s by Ilia Malinin (USA)).
Ilia Malinin (USA) became the first skater to finish a 2+6 quad layout with all postive GOEs at the Worlds.
Then career totals landmarks achieved this season:
Shoma Uno (JPN) finished his career with a staggering 346 quad attempts (292 internationals and 53 domestic attempts) – no one else comes near.
Boyang Jin (CHN) became the second skater to get over 250 quad attempts and ended the season with 267 attempts.
Morisi Kvitelashvili (GEO) competed at Japan Open in the fall and managed to get over 200 international attempts after retiring from competition (he was the 3rd to get the 200).
Adam Siao Him Fa (FRA) got over 150 international attempts (he was the 8th).
Kazuki Tomono (JPN), Ilia Malinin (USA) and Junhwan Cha (KOR) got together 100 international attempts (skaters 21 to 23 to do this).
I have so far used the number of international attempts as a benchmark since there are skaters in the 1990s and 2000s for whom there is no info on domestic attempts and in that way the international attempts are a more reliable tool to evaluate quantity. But now that the Russian ban has spanned two seasons, I am beginning to wonder if that should change. I am doing the whole career totals for women anyway already because most women’s quads get attempted at domestic events.
However, there are only 3 Russian men who have passed the 100 domestic attempts ever (all these during the ban): Makar Ignatov (123), Roman Savosin (108) and Andrei Mozalev (107). The Russian man with most attempts overall is Dmitri Aliev with 178 quads (91 international and 87 domestic). Ignatov is next with 165 and then Alexander Samarin with 162 (he got to 94 international). Some older skaters have gotten over 100 internationally: Plushenko, Menshov, Voronov, Kovtun and Kolyada. Samarin and Aliev might have been next in line to enter that list.
The quad revolution could be considered very close to complete for men - quads are attempted at all levels and in international and national competitions. I routinely have to check results down to novice competitions at least in Russia and Japan. There are very few skaters who can do well internationally without at least one quad.
What happens with women remains to be seen. Senior women are still mostly not attempting quads in competition - only about 1-2% of all women who have attempted quads have done so in their senior years (the international age limits applied here). Last season was pretty bad for senior women even in Russia. Quads are at the moment something that Russian pre-teen and early teen girls do in abundance, but others apparently cannot maintain them. It will be interesting to see what happens with eg Margarita Bazylyuk and Elena Kostyleva in the next couple of years...
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I thought Murav'yeva was trying to overcome an injury. There is Khromykh somewhere unless she retired. All and all, it is a function of injuries, but Russian women jumped quads in training since the days Butzaeva was in training at the very least. I mean, they might not be taking as many risks atm as they would if they were contending for international spots, not just the National title.
