KOSICE – Jor­dan Scott oblit­er­at­ed the long jump record at the JBL Jump Fest on his way to pro­duc­ing his sec­ond straight gold medal per­for­mance in Slo­va­kia on Wednes­day.

Fresh from his per­son­al best jump of 17.66 me­tres two weeks ago in Puer­to Ri­co, the 28-year-old leapt 17.44m to win the Elite men’s World Ath­let­ics Con­ti­nen­tal Tour Sil­ver event.

In do­ing so, Scott, the World Ath­let­ics In­door sil­ver medal­list, smashed the meet record of 17.20m set in 2023 by Italy’s Andy Gar­cia.

Lazaro Mar­tinez of Cu­ba was sec­ond with an ef­fort mea­sured at 16.82m, while Ja­maica’s World Un­der-20 record hold­er Jay­don Hi­b­bert, com­pet­ing for the first time since the 2024 Olympics due to in­jury, placed a com­mend­able third (16.69m).

In the women’s equiv­a­lent, Ja­maican Ake­lia Smith was third in the Elite Women’s long jump with 6.50m, just ahead of com­pa­tri­ot Nia Robin­son, who leapt 6.39m.

The event was won by Amer­i­can Mon­ae Nichols (6.69m) with France’s Hi­lary Kpatcha sec­ond with 6.53m.

CMC