The triple axel jump was his nemesis, vital to success.

First woman to land the triple axel jump at the World Junior Championships.

She is the second American woman and the sixth woman worldwide to do a triple Axel jump.

Harding was the second woman, and the first American woman, to complete a triple Axel jump in competition.

His first foray into spontaneity was an attempted triple axel jump, which he botched, rotating only once.

The most difficult throw jump that has been completed in competition is the throw triple axel jump.

After placing 6th in the short program, he attempted his first triple axel jump in competition in the free skate.

Her triple axel jump in free skating was ratified for the first time since 2010 Worlds Championship, with +1.29 grade of execution.

He performed a triple axel jump in a 1957 exhibition, 21 years before that jump was landed for the first time in competition.

In 2005, Meissner became the second American woman to land the triple Axel jump in national competition.

At the 1978 World Figure Skating Championships, he became the first person to land a triple axel jump in competition.

In February, he landed an triple Axel jump during the short program segment at the Four Continents Championships.

Fifth woman in history to land the triple axel jump in international competition (2004-05 Junior Grand Prix Final).

Her Japanese teammate Yukari Nakano won the silver after nailing a rare triple axel jump and finishing with a combined score of 169.43 points.

In June 2013, he tore ligaments in his right ankle while practicing a triple Axel jump and sustained nerve damage from the knee down during surgery.

He learned all his double jumps before age ten, the five triple jumps before age twelve, and the triple Axel jump before he turned thirteen.

He landed his first clean triple axel jump of his career in the qualifying round of this competition and his second clean one in the free skate.

When Bradley managed to land a second triple axel jump in combination late in the four-minute 30-second program, he hoped only that would be good enough to stay on the podium.

Coached by Machiko Yamada, who had trained Midori Ito, Koiwai was routinely landing the triple axel jump by 1994.

Twice she landed her trademark triple axel jump, which requires three-and-a-half revolutions and has been performed among women only by Harding and Midori Ito of Japan.

She plans, tentatively, to attempt a tough triple axel jump in her long program Saturday, while Kerrigan tackles less difficult technical jumps to music from "Beauty and the Beast."

Midori Ito (JPN) was the first woman to land the triple axel jump in competition, who first performed it at the 1988 NHK Trophy.

Brian Orser was only 4th in the figures, but he was 1st in the short, and won the free skate, completed a triple axel jump, received seven 5.9 for technical merit.

At the moment she took off on a triple axel jump last month in the United States national figure skating championships, Tonya Harding was just another skater in search of distinction.

At the 1991 World Championships, she again completed the triple axel jump (becoming the first American woman to perform it at an international event) but finished second to Kristi Yamaguchi.