triple jump vs athletic contest

triple jump and athletic contest both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
triple jump	Yes	No	No	No
athletic contest	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, athletic contest is a hypernym of triple jump; that is, athletic contest is a word with a broader meaning than triple jump:

triple jump: an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement
athletic contest: a contest between athletes

Other hypernyms of triple jump include athletic competition, athletics.

triple jump (noun)	athletic contest (noun)
an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement	a contest between athletes