Figure Skating: Midori Ito Statistics

**Firsts and Mosts**
First woman to land a triple axel and a triple-triple combination in international competitions (Worlds 1989). First to woman to land a triple axel in an Olympic competition (1992). First Asian skater to win a World's competition. Collected more 6.0 World Championship scores (ten total) than any other figure skater, male or female (as of April 2002).

**Competitive Skating Statistics**

Year	Event	Rank	Comments
1980	All Japan Juniors	1st
	All Japan Junior Freestyle	1st
1981	Freestyle	1st
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	Worlds Juniors	8th	First overseas competition for Midori.
1982	Freestyle	1st
	World Juniors	6th	Earned nicknamed "Tsunami Girl".
1983	Freestyle	1st
	All-Japan Juniors	1st
	Prague International Championship	1st
	Enia Challenge Cup (Holland)	2nd
	NHK Cup	3rd
1984	All-Japan	2nd
	World Juniors	3rd	Landed a double-loop, tripple-loop combination in the short program. One of the announcers for Japanese TV, Emi Watanabe remarked how the combo was one that even men do not perform (at that time). See the video on YouTube at
	Skate Canada	1st
	NHK Cup	1st
	Freestyle	1st
	Worlds	7th
1985	All-Japan	1st
	Worlds	--	Missed due to a broken ankle (broken during a practice attempt at a quadruple jump).
	NHK Cup	1st
1986	All-Japan	1st
	Freestyle	1st
	Worlds	11th
	NHK Cup	2nd
1987	All-Japan	1st
	Worlds	8th
	Freestyle	1st
	Fuji Cup	1st
	NHK Cup	2nd
1988	All-Japan	1st
	Worlds	6th
	Winter Olympics	5th
	Skate Amercia	2nd
	Aichi Prefecture Championship	1st	Completed the first successful triple axel in a competiton.
	Freestyle	1st
	NHK Cup	1st
1989	All-Japan	1st
	Worlds	1st	Became first Asian gold medalist, and first woman to land a triple axel in a major international competition. Recieved two 6.0 required elements score for her short program by the Italian and Hungarian judges, and five 6.0 technical merit scores for her free skate by the Bulgarian, Swedish, Italian, Hungarian, and Belarusian judges.
	Education Ministry (Japan) Sports Award	--
	JASA top stipend recipient	--	(Along with Seiko Hashimoto)
	Freestyle	1st
	NHK Cup	1st
1990	All-Japan	1st
	Worlds	2nd	Technical program included six triple jumps, including the triple axel. ReceIved three 6.0 technical merit scores for her free skate program from the Hungarian, Swiss, and Italian judges. Even though Midori won both the short and long programs, she placed tenth in the , and thus lost the Gold to Jill Trenary (had Midori placed ninth instead of tenth in the compulsories, she would've won the Gold).
	Tokyo Championship	1st
	East Japan Championship	1st
	Skate America	2nd	First competition in which Midori didn't have to be concerned with Complusory Figures (dropped by the ISU).
	NHK Cup	1st
	Tour of World Figure Skating Champions	--	At Landover, MD (Spring 1990).
1991	All-Japan	1st
	World Championships	4rth	Midori collided with Hubert during warmups, bruising her ribs. During her performance she crashed into a camera pit as she landed a double-lutz, part of a triple-double combination. She bounced out very quickly and finished her routine. At the end of her routine she returned to the pit and gracefuly bowed to the camera operators and helped picked up some of the debris.
	Asian Cup	1st
	East Japan Championship	1st
	Lalique Trophy	1st	Landed a triple axel. Recieved one 6.0 technical merit for her free skate. All despite a sore ankle.
	NHK Cup	1st	Recieved one 6.0 technical merit for her free skate.
1992	All-Japan	1st
	Winter Olympics	2nd	Replaced her planned triple axel in the SP for a Triple Lutz but fell. Fell on first triple axel attempt in her Free program but landed the second attempt, becoming the first woman to land one in an Olympics. Even though she won the Silver Medal, and even though the team coach, Noriko Shirota, told her she didn't have to be sorry, she publicly apologized to her country for not winning the Gold.
	Worlds	--	Missed due to interrupted training due from aggravating a cold caught while at the Olympics.
	Retired from amateur skating.
1993	World Pro	1st	Skated first to Yoshiki's "The Rose of Pain" and then to Barbara Streisands's "The Way We Were". Two of her best performances. In her first performance, the technical program, she landed one of her finest triple-axels ever, and performed the only triple-triple combination in the competition.
	Durasoft Colors Challenge of Champions	3rd	Skated to "Skater's Waltz."
	Freshlook Challenge of Champions	1st	Skated to Yoshiki's "The Rose of Pain". Her exhibition skate was to "Part of Your World."
1994	World Pro	2nd	Skated to "Part of Your World".
1995	Challenge of Champions.	1st
	World Pro	2nd
	--	--	Reinstated to amateur skater status in June.
1996	All-Japan	1st
	Worlds	7th	Attempted the triple axel: under-rotated, 2 footed the landing in the LP, fell in the SP.
1997- 2000	There is no competition data for Midori for late 1996 through 2000 as Midori retired from competitive skating in November of 1996. During that time she performed in Japanese ice shows for Prince Hotels, was the first Olympic Torch bearer in Japan for the 1998 Winter Olympics and also lit the Olympic Cauldron. Midori returned to competitive skating in 4 January 2001, when she competed at the Japan Open in Tokyo.
2001	Japan Open		Midori inserted the triple axel during her interpretative skate, but stepped out of the landing. Skated to "Voices of the Sky," and to "Romeo & Juliet."
2004	On 25 March 2004, Midori Ito was inducted into the "Hall of Fame" of World Figure Skating. Toller Cranston and Jutta Mueller were also inducted. The induction ceremony took place after the Compulsary Dance at the World Figure Skating Championships in Dortmund, Germany. Midori Ito was not able to attend the ceremonies.