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unusual facts about The Jump


The Jump

The show is broadcast live on public service broadcaster Channel 4, from Innsbruck in Austria.



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1988 British Grand Prix

Meanwhile the Ferraris of Gerhard Berger and Michele Alboreto got the jump on everyone and occupied the front row of the grid.

2012 Global Champions Tour

Ouaddar was with the nine year old gelding Porche du Fruitier (owned by Mohammed VI of Morocco) the second competition in the jump-off.

Axel jump

Since then four other women (Tonya Harding, Ludmila Nelidina, Yukari Nakano and Mao Asada) have succeeded in completing the jump in international competition, while another woman, Kimmie Meissner, first completed the jump at the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

The first woman to land the jump in competition was Midori Ito, who first performed it at the 1988 NHK Trophy.

Bokeem Woodbine

He has made appearances in the Wu-Tang Clan video clips "Gravel Pit", "Protect Ya Neck (The Jump Off)", "Careful (Click, Click)" and in RZA's "Chi Kung".

Bungee jumping

Several major movies have featured bungee jumps, most famously the opening sequence of the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye in which Bond makes a jump over the edge of a dam in Russia (in reality the dam is in Switzerland: Verzasca Dam, and the jump was genuine, not an animated special effect).

Burgberg Cable Car

It is also the jump-off point for many walks through the Harz to popular destinations such as the Molkenhaus or the crags of the Rabenklippen.

Equestrian at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Individual jumping

Royal Kaliber, an American horse ridden by Chris Kappler, was injured during the jump-off and the pair halted.

Franz Reichelt

Early parachuting successes, such as those by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in 1783 and by balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard, had used fixed-canopy parachutes (that were already "open" before the jump began), and although André-Jacques Garnerin had invented a frameless parachute suitable for use from high altitudes, by 1910 a parachuting solution that was suitable for use when jumping from a plane or at low altitude had yet to be developed.

Jimmy Siemers

He is currently on the Mastercraft Pro Ski Team and is a previous world record-holder in the jump event, with a 236 foot jump 66.8 meters.

Juergen Sommer

In 1998 he made the jump back home to sign with the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer, as a replacement for Brad Friedel, who had signed for Liverpool the previous year.

Petter Næss

Næss is best known for his work directing two of the three films about Ingvar Ambjørnsen's Elling character, Elling (2000), which was nominated for the foreign language film Oscar and Elsk meg i morgen (Love Me Tomorrow), (2005), in addition to Just Bea (2003), Mozart and the Whale (2005) and Hoppet (The Jump, 2007) in Sweden.

Ralph Spearow

Bill Bowerman claimed the jump was statistically valid but Spearow's lack of an AAU permit to compete prevented ratification.

Riot/Clone

Their first two cassette albums, Musical Destruction (1980) and Crime Pays (1981) were only ever released in very small quantities, and it was only when they finally got the money together to release an EP in April 1982 (There's No Government Like No Government) did they make the jump to a wider audience, the EP completely selling out within three weeks.

Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!

Although no anime series of Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi! exists, a pilot original video animation (OVA) was shown as part of the "Jump Super Anime Tour" of 1998 with pilots for One Piece and Hunter × Hunter.

Sergey Morgunov

The jump surpassed the longest standing record on the books, set by Randy Williams while winning the gold medal at the 1972 Olympics.

Susie Frankeberger

Frankeberger was KPGE's "Health and Family Safety" reporter, and worked with the local chapter of the American Heart Association on the "Jump for Heart" program in local schools.

Texas Theatre

On November 22, 1963, shortly after the fatal shooting of President Kennedy and the wounding of Texas governor John Connally (who was the jump seat passenger in the Kennedy limousine) at 12:30 p.m. and the fatal shooting of Officer Tippit at approximately 1:16 p.m., Oswald entered the Texas Theatre shortly after 1:30 p.m. without paying for a ticket, ostensibly to avoid police.

Tom Loftus

In 1890, he was hired to manage the Cincinnati Reds, who had recently made the jump from the American Association to the National League.