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Ulrich Salchow. The Salchow jump is an edge jump in figure skating. It was named after its inventor, Ulrich Salchow, in 1909. The Salchow is accomplished with a takeoff from the back inside edge of one foot and a landing on the back outside edge of the opposite foot. It is "usually the first jump that skaters learn to double, and the first or ...
Axel. Figure skating jumps are an element of three competitive figure skating disciplines: men's singles, women's singles, and pair skating – but not ice dancing. [a] Jumping in figure skating is "relatively recent". [2] They were originally individual compulsory figures, and sometimes special figures; many jumps were named after the skaters ...
A quadruple jump or quad is a figure skating jump with at least four (but fewer than five) revolutions. [1] All quadruple jumps have four revolutions, except for the quadruple Axel, which has four and a half revolutions. The quadruple toe loop and quadruple Salchow are the two most commonly performed quads.
During the figure skating team competition on Sunday night, 24-year-old Mirai Nagasu became the first American in history to land a triple axel jump at the Olympics. "HOLY COW!" You just witnessed ...
At the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo in 1977, Fratianne won her first world title by upsetting the favorite, Anett Pötzsch of East Germany, despite having fallen following a triple-Salchow jump in her free-skating routine. In 1979, Fratianne regained her world title, which she had lost to Pötzsch in 1978 in Ottawa, Canada.
Ilia Malinin established such a big lead after his peerless short program at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that the phenom's free skate Sunday was less a competition and more a coronation.
The scoring abbreviation for the upright spin[1] under-rotated. A jump or throw jump that is missing more than a quarter, but less than one-half, of a revolution. unison skating. Two or more skaters performing the same step s or element s at the same time – the opposite of mirror skating. upright spin.
Quadruple jump controversy. At the 2010 Winter Olympics held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the final results of the men's figure skating competition sparked what has been dubbed a quadruple jump controversy. [1][2] At the heart of it lies a quadruple jump done in combination with a triple toe loop, which Evgeni Plushenko of Russia ...