Shanieka Ricketts will be going after back-to-back Diamond League wins when she lines up in the women’s triple jump on Thursday’s second day of the Oslo Bislet Games in Norway, the sixth stop in the Wanda Diamond League series.

Ricketts, the Olympic Games silver medallist and Commonwealth Games champion, is coming off a win in Rome last week where she had a season’s best of 14.64m.

Just three Jamaicans are down to compete at the event, with Ackelia Smith also in the women’s triple jump and Jordan Scott down to compete in the men’s triple jump.

Ricketts, who is the number two ranked athlete in the world in the women’s triple jump, will go up against world leader Leyanis Perez Hernandez of Cuba, Olympic champion Thea Lafond of Dominica and another talented jumper, Liadagmis Povea, also of Cuba.

Smith, the World Championships and Olympic Games finalist, has a season’s best 13.84m, the only jumper in the field yet to register a legal 14.00m jump this season and is coming off a 13.83m effort at Saturday’s Racers Grand Prix at the National Stadium.

Jamaica’s Ackelia Smith competes in the women’s long jump at the Olympics in Paris, France on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. (Photo: Naphtali Junior)

Scott is having the best season of his career, ranked seventh in the world with a personal best 17.27m achieved in April and is up against some of the very best in the event.

Jamaica’s Jordan Scott competes in the men’s triple jump final during the Indoor World Athletics Championships in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, on March 21, 2025. (Photo: AFP)

Pedro Pichardo of Portugal, medallist at the last two Olympic Games and former World Champion Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkino Faso, who have both jumped over 18.00m before, lead the field that also includes world number two Germany’s Max Hess as well as American Russell Robinson.