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Who completed the first quadruple jump in competition?
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Katarina Witt, competing for East Germany, became the first woman since Norway's Sonja Henie (1928, 1932, and 1936) to win consecutive Olympic gold medals, doing so in 1984 and 1988.
The Canadian figure skater Kurt Browning was the first person to complete a quadruple jump in competition, landing a quad toe loop at the 1988 World Championships in Budapest.1