Yuzuru Hanyu etched his name into the pantheon of skating legends with a second straight Olympic gold medal in the free skate at the Pyeongchang Games on Saturday.
In doing so, the defending Olympic and world champion achieved a feat that had not been accomplished in 66 years, since American Dick Button won his second gold at the 1952 Winter Games in Oslo. Button won his first gold in 1948 at the St. Moritz Games in Switzerland.
The 23-year-old superstar became one of just four men in Olympic history to win consecutive golds with the triumph. Hanyu joined Sweden's Gillis Grafstrom, Austria's Karl Schafer and Button in the history books. Grafstrom won three straight (1920, 1924, 1928) golds, while Schafer reigned in 1932 and 1936.