Event
Balance beam

Skill type
Turn

Value
D
downgraded from E in 2017

Known as
Humphrey
Wolf turn 2.5
Tuck turn 2.5
Wolf 2.5

Named after
Terin Humphrey (USA) – 2004

About
Terin Humphrey got the wolf turn with 2.5 twists named after herself when she successfully performed it in qualification at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. What’s interesting about Humphrey’s original wolf 2.5 is that she did always complete three full rotations but intentionally lowered her leg after 2.5 to perform something that ended up being a little more stylish and interesting than the perfunctory squat-scoot it would become.

For the first decade+ of the open-ended code era, this element was an E, and so from 2010-2016, the wolf 2.5 and the wolf triple had the same E (0.5) value. That made the 2.5 very popular because, you know, less turning.

In 2017, though, the wolf turn 2.5 was fully exterminated when it was downgraded to a D (0.4), the same value as the double. There’s now no point to doing the 2.5 because you can stop at two for the same value.