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The base value of a single Axel is 1.10, a double Axel 3.30, a triple Axel 8.00, a quadruple Axel 12.50 and a quintuple Axel is 14. [ 8 ] Paulson was the first skater to accomplish an Axel, at the first international figure skating competition, which was held in Vienna in 1882, while wearing speed skates.
A double or triple Axel is required in the short program and an Axel is required in the free program for junior and senior single skaters in all ISU competitions. [39]: 18 The Axel has an extra half-rotation which, as figure skating expert Hannah Robbins says, makes a triple Axel "more a quadruple jump than a triple". [50]
During the competition earlier this month, Glenn successfully performed a triple axel, her signature, as well as seven triple jumps. This gave her a 3-point lead over the competition.
An accomplished jumper, Liu was the first American junior women's singles skater to successfully complete a triple Axel in international competition, the first American woman to land a quadruple jump, the first woman to complete both a quadruple jump and triple Axel in the same program, and the first woman to land a triple Axel triple in ...
Glenn started with an emphatic triple axel and overcame a slight wobble partway through her free skate — doubling a planned triple salchow and slightly under-rotating a triple flip — to finish ...
Amber Glenn thought she'd thrown away her chances of winning her long-sought U.S. figure skating title when, after landing a dramatic opening triple axel Friday night, the 24-year-old from Texas ...
At the 1991 Grand Prix International de Paris – a pre-Olympic event in Albertville – Ito beat Kristi Yamaguchi by completing a triple Axel and five other triple jumps in her free skating. During the warm-up before the free skating, she landed a triple Axel-triple toe loop jump combination. Ito on an Azerbaijani postage stamp
You miss a triple axel and you bounce off the ice. ... More time. More travel. There aren’t skating rinks, let alone elite coaching, in every city. Few schools have programs. This becomes a ...