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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 first woman to land a triple axel in competition was Midori Ito of Japan, who achieved this milestone at the 1989 World Championships in Paris.1