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,
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