Triple jump triple jump, although this has since been removed from the Olympic program and is rarely performed in competition today. The women's triple jump was introduced into the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. In Irish mythology the geal-ruith (triple jump), was an event contested in the ancient Irish Tailteann Games as early as 1829 BC. The athlete sprints down a runway to a takeoff mark, from which the triple jump is measured. The takeoff mark is commonly a physical piece of wood or similar material embedded in the runway, or a rectangle painted on the runway surface. In modern championships a strip
Toe loop jump Alexandra Trusova successfully landed a fully rotated quadruple toe loop thus becoming the first woman in history to land it. In skating parlance, a toe loop jump is often referred to simply as a "toe"; for example, "double toe", "triple toe". In British English, this jump is sometimes (confusingly) called a "cherry flip", but a toe loop is not the same as a flip jump. In artistic roller skating, the toe loop is also called the "Mapes" after its inventor. Toe loop jump The toe loop is one of the simplest jumps in figure skating. It is usually the second