Mao Asada received a Guinness Book world record for her three Vancouver Olympic triple axels. (AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama)
April 11, 11:38 AM
By Joshua Williams
In a unique addition to Mao Asada’s 2010 accomplishes, Japan’s top figure skater now has the honor of holding a Guinness Book world record.
On April 11th, at the Stars on Ice tour in Tokyo, Mao Asada was officially award the Guinness Record for the most triple axels performed by a women in one competition; she had completed three at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games, one in her short program and two in her free.
The Guinness record tops off her strong 2009-2010 season where she took Silver in the Olympics, won at the World Championships for the second time, as well as took first in the Four Continents tournament and Japan National Championships.
Mao Asada becomes the third Japanese figure skater to have graced the pages of the Guinness Book; the other two are Midori Ito and Miki Ando, NHK News noted. Ito was awarded a Guinness Record in 1989 for the most perfect scores in a competition, she had had received seven 6.0s from judges at the World Championships. Ando took her Guinness Record in 2002 for being the first women to have landed a quadruple jump in competition.
Asada commented, “I’m extremely happy. I want to see the book with my name in it as soon as possible,” according to the Yomiuri.
The 2011 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records is reportedly scheduled to go on sale in September of this year.
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