Post by Admin on Mar 22, 2019 18:09:40 GMT
Kazakhstan's Elizabet Tursynbaeva lands the first ever quadruple Salchow in women's competition on her way to winning silver in the free skate at the World Championships in Japan.
Elizabet Tursynbaeva became the first woman to land a quadruple jump at the worlds when she opened her Tango routine with a quad salchow. The 19-year-old Kazakh finished second with 224.76 points.
“I can’t believe I landed it,” Tursynbaeva said. “It was good in practice this morning. I couldn’t do it at the last two competitions so I was really glad to be able to do it here.”
Two-time world champion and Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia was third with 223.80 points. Her routine featured a triple salchow-triple loop combination, a double axel-triple toe loop as well as four more triple jumps.
