Alexandra "Sasha" Vyacheslavovna Trusova (Russian: Александра Вячеславовна Трусова, IPA: [ɐljɪˈksandrə ˈtrusəvə]; born 23 June 2004) is a Russian figure skater.
Alexandra "Sasha" Vyacheslavovna Trusova (Russian: Александра Вячеславовна Трусова, IPA: [ɐljɪˈksandrə ˈtrusəvə]; born 23 June 2004) is a Russian figure skater.
She is the 2022 Olympic silver medalist, the 2021 World bronze medalist, a two-time European bronze medalist (2020 and 2022), the 2019 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a four-time Russian national medalist (silver in 2019 and 2022; bronze in 2020 and 2021). As of January 2022, Trusova is the second highest ranked women's singles skater in the world by the International Skating Union, behind teammate Anna Shcherbakova.[6]
Trusova is the first female skater to land the quad Lutz, quad flip, and quad toe loop jumps; the second to land the quad Salchow (after Miki Ando); and the first to land two and three ratified quads in a free skate, achieved at the 2018 Junior World Championships and the 2019 Nepela Trophy, respectively.[7][8][9] She currently holds four Guinness World Records, the fourth in recognition of her landed quadruple flip at the 2019 ISU Grand Prix Final.[10] Her technical score of 92.35 points in the free skate at the 2018 Junior Worlds was the highest ever recorded in women's singles skating at the junior and senior level until the GOE (Grade of Execution) system was changed at the end of 2017–18 season.
At the junior level, Trusova won the first of her two World Junior Championship titles (2018 and 2019) and the 2017 Junior Grand Prix Final at the age of 13, the youngest woman to win these events. At the 2018 JGP Lithuania, she became the first female skater to land a quadruple jump in combination after performing a quad toe loop and triple toe loop.[11] At the 2018 JGP Armenia, she became the first female skater to land a quad Lutz jump in international competition.[12]
Trusova currently has the second highest free skating score of any female skater, with 177.13 points, behind only compatriot Kamila Valieva. Trusova is the first and currently the only female skater competing with four different quadruple jumps—toe loop, Salchow, flip, and Lutz—and the first to score above 100 points in technical elements, with 100.20 in the free skate at 2019 Skate Canada, later setting the Olympic record of 106.16 in the 2022 Olympics.
Trusova at the 2017–18 JGP Final.
At 13 years old, born on the 23 June, she is the youngest woman to win at the Junior World Championships and Junior Grand Prix Final, a distinction previously held by then 13 year old Yulia Lipnitskaya, who was born on June 5.
First woman to land a quad Lutz jump in international competition.[12]
First woman to land a quad in combination (the quad toe loop + triple toe loop).[11]
First woman to land a quad toe loop.[7]
First woman to land two quads in the free skate.[7]
First woman to land two different types of quads.[7]
First woman to land three different triple jumping pass combinations in the free skate with the second jump ending in a 3Salchow, 3Loop, and 3Toe.[7]
Second woman to land a clean quad Salchow behind Miki Ando.[7]
She became the first woman to ever land three quads in an ISU sanctioned international competition when she landed 4Lz, 4T+3T and 4T at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial.
She set the new free skating record of 163.78 points and also the new combined total record of 238.69 points. Her technical element score (TES) of 98.34 points in free skating was also the new world record at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial.
She earned 14.72 points for her quadruple Lutz which was the new record for the highest valued single jump at the 2019 CS Ondrej Nepela Memorial.
She became the first woman to land four quads, and also the first woman to land three different quads, when she landed 4S, 4Lz, 4T+3T, and a 4T+1Eu+3S in free skate at the 2019 Japan Open.
She also became the first woman to land two quad jump and a triple jump combinations in one program at the 2019 Japan Open.
She became he first woman to land a quad jump and a triple jump combination in the second half of the free skate at the 2019 Japan Open.
She became the first woman to ever land two quad jump and a triple jump combinations in one program in ISU sanctioned international competition when she jumped 4T+3T and 4T+1Eu+3S at the 2019 Skate Canada.
She became the first woman to land a quad jump and a triple jump combination in the second half of the free skate at the 2019 Skate Canada.
She set the new free skating record of 166.62 points and also the new combined total record of 241.02 points. Her technical element score (TES) of 100.20 points in free skating was also the new world record at the 2019 Skate Canada
She became the first woman to attempt 5 quads in her free skate at the 2019–20 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final.
She became the first woman to land a quad flip in a competition at the 2019–20 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final
She held a technical score of 92.35 points in the free skate, the highest ever recorded in women's figure skating on both the junior and senior level until the GOE system were changed.
She set a new record of the highest valued single jump where she scored a 15.71 on her quad flip European championships 2022
Alexandra "Sasha" Vyacheslavovna Trusova (Russian: Александра Вячеславовна Трусова, IPA: [ɐljɪˈksandrə ˈtrusəvə]; born 23 June 2004) is a Russian figure skater.