Triple jump at the Olympics Triple jump at the Olympics The triple jump at the Summer Olympics is grouped among the four track and field jumping events held at the multi-sport event. The men's triple jump has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since the first Summer Olympics in 1896. The women's triple jump is one of the more recent additions to the programme, having been first contested in 1996. It became the third Olympic jumping event for women after the high jump and long jump. The Olympic records for the event are for men, set by Kenny Harrison in 1996, and for women,
Flip jump flip entrance, typically landed on the left toe pick and right forward inside edge for a counterclockwise jump, is called a "half flip". The half flip, in turn, forms the basis for the common split jump, in which the skater achieves either a front-to-back or sideways (Russian or straddle) split position at the apex of the jump. A full-rotation flip jump with a split position is sometimes seen as well; this is called a "split flip". In the past, it was also quite common for skaters to perform a "one-and-a-half flip" jump as an element in jump sequences or as