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The ___MASK16___ (" Olympia ", " the Olympics " also " the Olympiad ") were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city - states and one of the Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece . They were held in honor of Zeus , and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin . The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC . They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule , until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in 393 AD as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome . The games were held every four years , or " olympiad ", which became a unit of time in historical chronologies . Mary Denise Rand , MBE ( née Bignal on 10 February 1940 ) is a former English track and field athlete . She won the long jump at the ___MASK29___ by breaking the world record , the first British female to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field . She remains the only Great Britain female athlete to win three medals in a single Games . Tatyana Shchelkanova ( Russian :       , 18 April 1937 -- 24 November 2011 ) was a Soviet long jumper , sprinter and pentathlete who won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1964 Olympics . In 1961 she set a world record at 6 . 48 m and extended it to 6 . 53 m in 1962 to and 6 . 70 m in 1964 . However , in the Olympic final she only managed 6 . 42 m , while the winner Mary Rand broke the world record at 6 . 76 m . Shchelkanova won two European titles in the long jump , in 1962 and 1966 ( indoor ) . Shchelkanova won five gold ( long jump in 1961 , 1963 and 1965 ; 100 m in 1961 ; and pentathlon in 1965 ) and one silver medal ( 80 hurdles in 1963 ) at the Summer Universiade , as well as 10 national titles in the long jump ( 1961 - 66 ) , 4 × 100 m relay ( 1961 - 63 ) , and pentathlon ( 1963 ) . After retiring from competitions she headed a department at the St . Petersburg State University of Telecommunications . The ___MASK29___ , officially known as the , was an international multi - sport event held in Tokyo , Japan , from October 10 to 24 , 1964 . Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics , but this honor was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan ' s invasion of China , before ultimately being canceled because of World War II . The triple jump , sometimes referred to as the hop , step and jump or the hop , skip and jump , is a track and field event , similar to the long jump . As a group , the two events are referred to as the " horizontal jumps ." The competitor runs down the track and performs a hop , a bound and then a jump into the sand pit . The triple jump was inspired by the ancient ___MASK16___ and has been a modern Olympics event since the Games ' inception in 1896 . Track and field is a ___MASK86___ which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running , jumping , and throwing . The name is derived from the ___MASK86___ ' s typical venue : a stadium with an oval running track enclosing a grass field where the throwing and jumping events take place . Track and field is categorised under the umbrella ___MASK86___ of athletics , which also includes road running , cross country running , and race walking . The long jump ( historically called the broad jump ) is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed , strength , and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a take off point . Along with the triple jump , the two events that measure jumping for distance as a group are referred to as the " horizontal jumps ". This event has a history in the Ancient ___MASK16___ and has been a modern Olympic event for men since the first Olympics in 1896 and for women since 1948 .