According to "The New York Times", the triple Axel "has become more common for male skaters" to perform. The first female skater to complete a triple Axel was Japanese skater Midori Ito, at the 1989 World Championships. Tonya Harding became the first woman to land the triple Axel on Olympic ice, in 1992 during SP warm up (she fell on the actual competition). Only three women have completed the triple Axel during an Olympic program: Ito in 1992 (LP), Japanese skater Mao Asada in 2010 and 2014 (both SP and LP), and American skater Mirai Nagasu in 2018. Tonya Harding was the first American female skater to complete the triple Axel in competition, at the 1991 U.S. Championships; it was another 10 years before another female skater attempted it. As of 2021, 12 women have successfully completed the triple Axel in international competition. They are: Midori Ito, Tonya Harding, Ludmila Nelidina, Yukari Nakano, Mao Asada, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Rika Kihira, Mirai Nagasu, Alysa Liu, Alena Kostornaia, You Young, and Anastasia Shabotova.