Midori Ito (1992 Silver Medalist)
Biography
Born in Nagoya, Ito started skating at age 5. Midori landed her first triple jump at age 8. She won her first national championship in 1985, having already participated in the World Championships one year earlier. She placed 5th at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada. Later that same year, she perfected the triple Axel which she had been working on since her early teens and she became the first woman to land a triple axel in competition, when competing at a regional competition in the Aichi prefecture. She would repeat this feat at both the 1988 NHK international later that fall, and then the World Championships in 1989. Her win at the 1989 World Championships was the first world title in the sport for an Asian competitor. She received five 6.0s for technical merit.
She did not retain her title in the following two years (second in 1990, fourth in 1991) primarily due to unexpected and uncharacteristic errors she made; still, she was one of the favorites for the Olympic title at the 1992 Winter Olympics. In the pre-Olympic event in Albertville in the fall of 1991, she beat rival Kristi Yamaguchi by completing a triple-axel and five other triples in her free skate....more Wikipedia data
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