To think that girls weren't allowed to do triple jump at school in the 90s?

[ImRonBurgandy]

Just that. I definitely remember (secondary 1990-98) being told that we couldn't do triple jump as it could damage our insides?

I was born late 1950's and remember doing Hop Skip and Jump in the late 60's / early 70's
How strange

1980 ish i think we did it, i thought it was the long jump, that and hurdles and high jump and javelin, perhaps discus too not sure

We did it in the late 1980s as well as high jump, long jump, hurdles, discuss, javelin and long-distance running

Was she right?

I was at school in the 70s and triple jump was a boys sport. I don't remember ever being given a reason.

I was born mid 60's and remember doing the "Hop, Skip and Jump" as well.

I remember being told that women couldn't do push ups, as they put too much pressure on our wombs! At my school, the girls sports were definitely viewed as being bess important that boys sports. I remember wanting to play cricket and rugby, but only being allowed to play rounders and netball.

my friend female played cricket but she had to go elsewhere to do this in 1977

I was in secondary from 87-94, we did triple jump, 1500m and cricket. No football, rugby or basketball though.

I remember we did it in primary school (hop, skip and jump!) but can't remember if we did it in secondary school. I do remember the longest girls running race on sports day was 800m compared to the boys 1500m but we did all do the 1500m in a PE lesson one day (and I am still gutted about my result, I was doing so well, in the front pack with the fastest boys but then my shoelace came undone so I stopped to do it up and couldn't catch up with them again)

That just sounds like a classful of accidents waiting to happen! I actually got hit in the face with a tennis racket once (in the days when rackets were made of wood and strung with cat gut so quite heavy things) because the girls from one entire year group were being made to practice rallying on 4 tennis courts. Ludicrous. I was allowed to sit down for 5mins then had to join in again. Turned out a piece had been chipped off my brow bone. We were tough in those days! 😊

There was an episode of BBC's 999 that showed a recreation of a school javelin accident. It went through a boy's neck and the fire brigade had to carefully saw off the lengths both sides before he could be taken to hospital IIRC 🤢

I did triple jump at school in the 90s. I was terrible at it 😂

I did it at secondary in the 90's. From memory there weren't any sports that just girls weren't allowed to do.

I mean, they used to think women's uteruses would fly out of their bodies if they went in a 'high speed' train i.e. over approx 50mph, soooooo...?

Hop, skip and jump/triple jump in middle school and in secondary.
We did all the athletics.
Girls weren't allowed to do rugby or football though. A teacher said they weren't insured for girls to do it 🙄

It seemed like madness to let kids loose with javelins now though 😆

I competed in the long jump, triple jump, discuss, javelin and shot put and raced in the relay and 1500m every year in high school. I was born in 1979 .

I still remember that! I was always very careful at athletics as a result.

Now I'm an anaesthetist and I go down a mental rabbit hole wondering how I'd anaesthetise them for its removal.

I definitely did but it was hop, skip and jump

We did triple jump (1998-2005) but didn’t have to do the 1,500 meters run like the boys- we only had to do 800 meters!

Oh yeah, definitely no football or rugby for girls.

I was in high school 91-96 and unfortunately had to do all the above mentioned. The only
thing my school didn’t do was the one where you twirled around with a metal ball (hammer?).

Girls only did the long jump at our school. This was in the seventies.

Ooo, I hadn't considered that would be a problem - could they not have a general anaesthetic? I'm not sure I'd want to be awake whilst they yanked it out!

We did triple jump in the 90’s