She is the only woman to land a clean triple Axel on the senior Grand Prix Series this fall and has done so at all four of her events this season overall.Glenn later two-footed the landing of the back end of a triple flip-triple toe loop combination.

Competing with five Japanese skaters in the six-woman field, Amber Glenn of the United States continued her breakout season in figure skating by taking the lead in the short program at the Grand Prix Final on Thursday as world champion Kaori Sakamoto fell.

The most important annual event on the international figure skating calendar is the world championships. Second is the Grand Prix Final, which begins tomorrow in Grenoble, France. The Grand Prix of Figure Skating's regular season consists of six events held around the world in October and November.

This fall, all of the reigning world champions — Ilia Malinin, Kaori Sakamoto, Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxime Deschamps and Madison Chock and Evan Bates — won nine out of their 10 combined Grand Prix regular season starts. Stellato-Dudek and Deschamps then withdrew from the Final on Monday.