Tonya Harding's First Triple Axel- The 1991 U.S. Nationals Figure Skating Championships 

One minute into the program and she hits a triple lutz, a triple axel and a triple-triple combination. Iconic!

her smile afterwards is just the cherry on top... this is HER MOMENT!

Aww the man reacting to her is so sweet

everything can be bad, everyone can speak bad about her.....but one is absolutely clear......she is the real champion woman.

She will go down in history as the 1st American woman to ever land a triple axle. No one can ever take that away from her. She was more athletic and powerful than Nancy Kerrigan. You could tell, she was all muscle. What happened to her sucked.

Now that I know more about Harding’s personal life I’m twice as awed. What heart she had, when she was a punching bag with zero support off the ice. She and Debbie Thomas were powerful athletic skaters, robbed by this sport’s insistence on frilly little girls.

She is so beautiful and talented. She deserved so much better. Also, Batman music is great.

No matter what.. nobody can't take this from her!!!

I remember when this happened in real time! We were all so proud of her as the first American to complete the triple axel!

I can only imagine how far she would have gone if there weren't for all those abusiv3 people in her life 😢

This always makes me tear up

That is an epic event regardless how anybody thinks she changed the world of figure skating and she looked great doing it

That triple axel was incredible. No words other than, wow

she killed it with the Batman music in the background. 🤙 she was effin things up that day.

The commentator sounds like a proud dad ❤

Just watched 'I, Tonya' today love the movie; Margo Robbie; and soundtrack. It brought me here and is that the Batman 1989 movie theme Tonya is skating too. Love that move too.

Beautiful- love her joy at her accomplishment. Go, Tonya!

Say what you will about her but on ice she was the best.

i love the way he says "GOOD GIRL😃😃😃"

I recommend watching the triple axel on a playback speed of 0.25 coz it makes it look even more impressive

I LOVE WATCHING HER JUMP.. There are some times where I think when she jumps it looks like her air position is like off or that she we fall.. IT IS ALMOST LIKE MID AIR she CORRECTS.... It is so cool. watch the jumps.. You would think she would fall on the triple axle but she just FREAKING NAILS IT!!

Her reaction afterwards

.44 that is the cleanest landing I have ever seen

Anyone else get emotional watching her reaction to landing that first triple? What a star

Say what you want about Tonya Harding but the woman is a skating legend!

Oh, Ms. Tonya, we love you. This was the GREATEST performance in your entire career. Love you...

I love the Tonya Harding's coreography, its beautiuful🦋

It’s incredible how history is formed especially the music choices being Batman related and then Margot Robbie plays Harley Quinn and then goes on to do the role of Tonya Harding so that her side of the story could be shared. It’s not fair what happened to Tonya where she lost everything and she didn’t do anything and yet OJ Simpson got to keep everything even though he committed murder. I thought Margot did an amazing performance ❤️ I’m glad Tonya got the chance to explain her side of the story 💕

she was and is the real forever champion

Acabei de assistir ao filme, estou pensando se desde sempre Tonya tivesse tido estrutura emocional e financeira, ela seria a maior atleta de sua área em todos os tempos.

I'm not American! But I feel like one in this moment..... No matter what happen she is the best🎉 ❤

I know about the scandal and everything but watching this moment and seeing the joy on her face brings me to tears ❤

Thank you for explaining the triple axel! I remember when it was an unattainable skip. Nowadays they do quadruples .... - but you know what: I will always remember the triple axels!!c

I'm really curious to hear from professional skaters and competent judging by people that know skating well whether she deserved the scores she got when she was competing professionally.

why did this just make me cry im so proud of her

Team tonya

Absolute peak of her technique! She had some good moments after this but this was her best. She has so many underrated moments in the 80’s too

A true powerhouse! Love you always Tonya!

a real tragedy...such skill and talent ending in disaster

she made it look effortless and her landings were solid!

I dont care what people say.. I love my Tonya Harding! I can bet she thought to herself "holy **it I did it!!"

Famous for all the wrong reasons today. But damn if she wasnt a powerhouse. 100# and she looks like she could squat a truck. When she hit them she killed it.

NONE of the girls doing triple axles now get anywhere near the height she or Midori had!

Does anyone know the music during her choreography ?

Unbelievable talent,

the way she ate so hard omg

A MF ICON BABY!!! 🎉

my mother used to watch her skate at the Lloyd center in Portland… I wish I could’ve

Hermosa y fuerte

She is GORGEOUS!

why everyone keeps hating on tonya when as far as I know she wasn’t involved in the assault itself she just thought thau were sending letters to her? she didn’t know they were going to break nancy’s knee

Was that also the batman song in the background 😮?

O sistema foi muito cruel com essa mulher!!! Mas a forma como ela patina vai ficar pra sempre marcado na história!!!

I love that she did it it to the batman theme. An epic song for an epic move.

Ella es y sera la mejor siempre

She is a goddess

I, Tonya brought me here.

So cool how she threw a few in there!!

Considering how she grew up , she is extremely blessed

Nice! And even better with the Batman track.

She was pretty damn good at skating

wow

She skates really powerfully. She has really strong legs, stronger than Midori who at the time was the only other person who had landed a 3a in competition, so I wonder why her landings are so shaky? She almost fell out of that combo

A beautiful skater

She was incredible. She did not deserve any of the abuse she endured from her mother, Jeff, or to be undervalued by the the skating community just cus she didn’t have a certain image

I like how she kept showing off

Bravo

What a shame that she worked so hard, and really must’ve had a great deal of courage and talent to reach that level, and then had all of it snatched away from her by a thug, although, like most of us, she was her own worst enemy in the episode

Tonya Harding hizo historia para bien y para mal.

Is that the batman 89 theme?

“Define ‘Aura’”

Wow

Espectacular 👌

why is lego batman: the videogame's themesong playing in the background

Tonya doing the triple axil is like travis pastrana doing a double back flip on a dirt bike ,its all over for the other competitors!!

I got ghost bumps and I loved the reporter

We were so wrong about her.

“She’s a very powerful skater, she’s tiny.” 😭

If the competition was about skills alone she would have dominated.

Well Whatever Else she did That was pretty Cool.😎

I know she did some sketchy stuff, but you can’t help but just feel horrible for her once you know her backstory. Edit: I loved her reaction to hitting the Triple Axel, I bet in that moment she felt the best she ever had in her entire life.

🐐

0:41

She could have easily done quad jumps

"Whhooo aare you?!?!" .... ... ... "I'm Tonya!"

So did she announce ahead of time that she would attempt it? How did everyone know she was going to try it? Why not just totally make it a huge surprise?

🎉🎉🎉👐👐

Since only GOD knows what happened with the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, we gotta be amazed and saddened as well at the whole Tonya Harding situation. So much talent and so much devastation.

To Batman’s theme

Real champions love competition, She knew she was never gonna be good as her

Where is Tonya

She was a great skater, she didn't need to attack her rival Nancy Kerrigan. In fact, you can't convince me that she had anything to do with it. She was a very confident skater. I honestly believe her ex husband set it all up to ruin her chances at a better life. She was divorcing him and he wanted her solely dependant on him because he knew she had no family support. He was a selfish and wicked man. Her life and career was completely ruined because of that jerk. I still love watching her skate. I followed her career back in the early 90s until this feasco in 1994. No one deserves what happened to her. Nancy Kerrigan was not affected by her injury which makes me suspicious of the motive behind the attack. A man the size of her attacker was certainly strong enough to break her knee or break her leg... yet all he did was bruise her chin. Nancy's father was an abitious man and I still think he made a deal with Gulluly to end Tanya career so his daughter could win the gold medal. Only he never counted on Oksana Baiul.

batman theme is just playing in the background

😮❤

era la mejor se dejó llevar por la ambición de seguro le.ganaba bien a la que mando a lesionar

Ohh miammm

Super clacc

How many people here because of Kanye 😂???

Dick Button is THRILLED and its so cute

Frankly, I see that American women figure skaters have gone backwards not forward.