Table of Contents

• Events

1. Field Events

1. Long Jump
2. Triple Jump
3. Javelin
4. Pole Vault
5. High Jump
6. Discus
7. Shot Put
8. Hammer Throw
9. Pentathlon
10. Decathlon
11. Walking
12. Quiz

2. Sprints
3. Relays
4. Hurdles
5. Middle & Long Distances

• Warming up
• Training
• Record Breakers
• Did you know?
  (Cool Track Facts)
• Track and Field Links
• Bibliography

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The original triple jump as practiced by the Greeks and was no more than three long jumps one after the other. The Celts invented a sytle of three jumps in a continuous action and this was regulated at the end of the nineteenth century, first by the Irish and then by the Americans. Originally a hop-hop-jump, with the first two hops taken from the same foot, the triple jump became the hop-step-jump after 1900.

Records of a women's triple jump contest held indoors in the Americas go back as far as1899 and although it had no official recognition, the event was practiced regularly, particularly in the Americas, the USSR and China. The first IAAF women's world record was ratified in 1990 and the event appeared for the first time in the IAAF World Championships in 1993.