Adelia Petrosyan lands quadruple Rittberger jump in women's first

PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian figure skater of Armenian descent Adelia Petrosyan has successfully landed a quadruple Rittberger jump for the first in the history of women's single skating at an official competition in Perm, RBC reports.

Also called the loop jump, the Rittberger is an edge jump. The skater executes it by taking off from the back outside edge of the skating foot, turning one rotation in the air, and landing on the back outside edge of the same foot.

In addition, in the free program the 14-year-old athlete performed a triple loop, a double axel, a triple flip – a triple toe loop, a triple flip – a triple Salchow and a triple lutz. As a result, Petrosyan collected 147.15 points and took first place.

After two performances, the skater earned 213.26 points and took the second place, lagging behind Sofya Muravyova who collected 216.64 points in total.