A new world record in the quad jumps by a 15 year old Skater Kamila Valieva

A new world record in the quad jumps by a 15 year old Skater Kamila Valieva

A new world record in the quad jumps:

The juvenile top athlete accomplished one of the most difficult jumps in figure skating during her performance on Monday, a jump so tough that no other woman had ever landed it at an Olympics before, and then she repeated the accomplishment.

On Monday, a 15-year-old member of the Russian Olympic Committee team performed a famous quadruple leap twice during the free skate section of the team event. Her efforts helped her team win the gold medal, with the silver medal going to the United States and the bronze medal going to Japan.

The first time a woman’s accomplishment: 

The skater must accomplish at least four, but no more than five, revolutions to execute a quadruple leap. Despite the fact that quadruple leaps have grown in popularity among elite men’s figure skaters, Valieva’s performance in Beijing was the first time a woman had completed one at the Olympics.

She was the first skater to land a quad salchow, a jump in which a skater lifts off the ice with the inner edge of one skate, spins four times in midair, and then lands cleanly on the outside edge of the opposite skate. Valieva finished off the routine with a quad toe loop and a triple-toe combination. She landed incorrectly on her third quad and fell.

Valieva also completed the challenging triple Axel jump, making her only the fourth woman to do it at an Olympic Winter Games.

In November of last year:  

Valieva competed in the ISU Grand Prix Rostelecom Cup, when she achieved a new world record in the quad jumps for the first time. She has nine spore world records to her name.

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