Barrel jumping

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Barrel jumping
Canada's Red McCarthy barrel jumping. McCarthy was also an ice hockey player and the co-inventor of ringette
Highest governing bodyCanadian Barrel Jumping Federation
First played1920; 104 years ago (1920)
 Netherlands
Characteristics
ContactNo
Equipment
  • ice skates
  • barrels; standard barrel: fibre composition material, 18 inches in diameter
Presence
OlympicNo[1]
World GamesNo

Barrel jumping is a discipline of speed skating, where ice skaters build up speed to jump over a length of multiple barrels lined up, usually side by side like rollers.[2][3] Occasionally barrels would also be stacked pyramid-style for height. The objective is to jump over the most barrels without landing on the barrels. At the far end, the skaters need not land on their skates. Most jumpers would wear helmets and padding on their posterior to cushion the landing on the ice. At the end of the ice was a padded bumper.

A standard barrel is made of a fiber composition material and 16 inches in diameter.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cascade was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Barrels of Speed. British Pathé. 7 January 1958. Retrieved 27 May 2022 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Edwards, Tori. "Take a Trip Down Memory Lane: Barrel Jumping on Speedskates". US Speedskating. Archived from the original on January 2, 2016.