TOP 10 Best Female Figure Skaters of All Time

A century of women's figure skating told through the ten who shaped it most. From the era when skating became spectacle, through the triple Axel revolution and into the age of quads and controversy. Journey of Icons ranks the TOP 10 Best Female Figure Skaters of All Time. What you'll see in this video: How a four-foot-nine teenager landed the first female triple Axel and forced the sport to abolish compulsory figures The Battle of the Carmens, a Stasi file with thirty-five hundred pages, and the only woman besides Sonja Henie to defend Olympic gold Why Yuna Kim's 2010 Vancouver performance is still considered the closest to perfection the sport has ever seen 00:00 Introduction 00:30 #10 Peggy Fleming (USA) 01:33 #9 Anna Shcherbakova (Russia) 02:34 #8 Irina Slutskaya (Russia) 03:24 #7 Midori Ito (Japanl) 04:25 #6 Kaori Sakamoto (Japan ) 05:30 #5 Mao Asada (Japan) 06:45 #4 Katarina Witt (Germany) 07:42 #3 Michelle Kwan (USA) 08:41 #2 Sonja Henie (Norway) 10:00 #1 Yuna Kim (South Korea) Sources: Olympics.com olympics.com ISU isu.org Britannica britannica.com ESPN espn.com U.S. Figure Skating usfigureskating.org Journey of Icons covers the greatest athletes, rivalries, and defining moments in sports history, ranked and told cinematically. Contact: [email protected]