Alexandra Trusova

Alexandra Trusova
June 23, 2004 (Ryazan, Russia)
Figure skater

Russian figure skater, who accredited for leading the ladies figure skating technical revolution, becoming:

the first female skater to land the quad Lutz, quad flip, and quad toe loop jumps;
the second to land the quad Salchow;
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.
She is also the first to land four and five quads in a free skate, achieved at the Beijing Winter Olympics 2022.
She currently holds four Guinness World Records, the fourth in recognition of her landed quadruple flip at the 2019 ISU Grand Prix Final. Her technical score of 92.35 points in the free skate at the 2018 Junior Worlds was the highest 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.

Trusova began learning to skate in 2008. She trained in Ryazan under Olga Shevtsova until 2015; then she moved to Moscow where she was coached by Alexander Volkov. Eteri Tutberidze and Sergei Dudakov became her coaches in 2016. On May 6, 2020, it was announced that Trusova had decided to join Evgeni Plushenko’s academy, but on May 1 2021, she was returning to the Sambo-70 training center under previous coach Tutberidze. From 1 October Alexandra was joining Svetlana Sokolovskaya’s group at CSKA.

COMPETITIVE HIGHLIGHTS

International

2022 Olympic silver medalist
2021 World bronze medalist
2020, 2022 European bronze medalist.
2021 Skate America champion.
2019 Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.
2019 Rostelecom Cup champion.
2019 Skate Canada champion.
2019 CS Ondrej Nepela champion.

International Junior

two-time Junior World champion (2018, 2019).
2018 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist.
2017 Junior Grand Prix Final champion.
2018/2019 Junior Grand Prix Armenia champion.
2018/2019 Junior Grand Prix Lithuania champion.
2017/2018 Junior Grand Prix Australia champion.
2017/2018 Junior Grand Prix Belarus champion.

National

2022 Russian Champion
2020, 2021 Russian national bronze medalist.
2019 Russian national silver medalist.
2018, 2019 Russian junior national champion.

RECORDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Youngest woman to win at the Junior World Championships and Junior Grand Prix Final
First woman to land a quad Lutz jump in international competition.
First woman to land a quad in combination (the quad toe loop + triple toe loop).
First woman to land a quad toe loop.
First woman to land two quads in the free skate.
First woman to land two different types of quads.
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.
Second woman to land a clean quad Salchow behind Miki Ando.
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 the free skate at the 2019 Japan Open.
She also became the first woman to land two quad jumps and a triple jump combination in one program at the 2019 Japan Open.
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 Japan Open.
She became the first woman ever to land two quad jumps and a triple jump combination 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 five 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 was changed.
She set a new record for the highest valued single jump when she scored a 15.71 on her quad flip European championships 2022
She became the first woman ever to land 4 and 5 quads in competition when she landed 4F, 4S, 4T, 4Lz+3T, and 4Lz at the Winter Olympics 2022. She is also currently the only woman to even attempt 4 and 5 quads due to her ability to land a variety of them.
First and currently, the only woman to land 3 and 4 different types of quads, which she accomplished at the Winter Olympics 2022.
First skater (among both men and women) to land a 4Lz+3T combination in the second half of free skating, which she accomplished at the Winter Olympics 2022. Scoring 19.90 (BV 17.27 + GOE 2.63), she also set the new record of highest valued combination jump by a woman.