TRIPLE JUMP Flashcards
THEREFORE THE SINGLE MOST IMPORATNT AIMED IS FOR THE ATHLETE TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE HORIZONTAL SPEED,THROGHOUT THE ________, _______, AND ________
HOP, THE STEP AND THE JUMP
is an athletic sport of the track and field discipline, in which athletes get to take two steps before making the final jump
Triple jump
The first two steps are also referred to as
STEP
The objective of this board is to over as much distance as possible in the _____ leaps.
THREE
a triple jump field consists of a __________, _________ and a _____ about ___ ft away from takeoff line.
runway path, a marker start the jump from, sand pit
14
To make the jump, athletes sprint towards the takeoff mark and perform __________________ in one continuous sequence.
hop, step and jump
he origins of the triple jump are obscure, but it may be related to the ancient children’s game _____
hopscotch
It has been a modern Olympic event since the first Games in __________; at those Games hops were used, but one hop was used at the Olympics thereafter.
1886
The standing triple jump was contested only in the ________ AND _______ Olympics.)
1900 and 1904
There is evidence that the people jump, in some form, dates to the ancient _____ Olympics.
Greek
The __________ was indisputably bite of the Greeks games, but some jumpers recorded leaps of move than 50, leading sports historians to conclude that these were actually a series of jumps.
long jump
is one of the important parts of an athlete’s jump. The athlete sprint down a runway to takeoff mark , from which the triple jump is measured
APPROACH
The ______ is commonly either a piece of wood or similar material embedded in the runway , or a rectangle painted in the runway surface.
takeoff mark
In modern championships a strip of ______, ________, ________, is attached to the far edge of the board to record athletes overstepping or “scratching” the mark, defined by the trailing edgeof the board.
plasticine , tape , or modeling clay
Begins with the athlete jumping from the take-off board on one leg, which for descriptive purposes, will be the right leg.
HOP