Junior World Champion Ilia Malinin wrote figure skating history with the first clean quadruple axel in a competition.
The American made the world premiere of the jump with four and a half turns at a competition in Lake PlacidOlympic city from 1932 and 1980.
“I’ve had the idea of trying it out in competition for a while. And it felt really good.”said the 17-year-old, who finished ninth at the World Championships in Montpellier in April.
Malinin’s countryman Dick Button presented the first double Axel at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. 30 years later, the Canadian Vern Taylor stood the king’s vault in the triple version for the first time at the World Championships in Ottawa.