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Jordan Scott rebounds to win triple jump at Oslo DL
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June 10, 2026

Jordan Scott rebounds to win triple jump at Oslo DL

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s Jordan Scott rebounded from his first loss of the season to win the men’s triple jump at Wednesday’s Oslo Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, the sixth stop on the Wanda Diamond League series, jumping a wind-aided 17.66m (2.6m/s).

Scott, the reigning national champion and the World Athletics Indoor Championships silver medalist and two-time World Athletics Championships 400m bronze medalist Rushell Clayton, who was second, were the only Jamaicans who had podium finishes at the last major event before the start of the Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) National Championships set to start on June 18.

Ackelia Smith was fourth in her first triple jump competition of the season; male triple jumper Jaydon Hibbert and women’s 400m runner Nickisha Pryce were both fifth in their competitions with shot putter Danniel Thomas-Dodd placing sixth in her event.

Scott had just two legal jumps after fouling his opening attempt and getting 16.96m (-1.8m/s) in the second round before matching his personal best and taking the lead in the third round.

Hibbert, who had a season best 17.17m (0.8m/s), also fouled his first round jump and had two jumps over 17.00m in the competition.

Italy’s Andy Diaz Hernandez, who beat Scott in Rome, was second on Wednesday with a season best equaling 17.59m (0.0m/s) with Yasser Mohammed Triki of Algeria third with a wind aided 17.43m (2.4m/s).

Clayton, who was third in her two previous outings, finished second in 53.50 seconds behind Slovakia’s Emma Zapletalova who won with 53.13, her third straight Diamond League win, while American Jasmine Jones was third with 54.09.

Smith opened her triple jump season with 14.50m (1.3m/s) after competing in the long jump and finished behind Cuba’s Davisleydi Valazco who won with a wind-aided 14.85m (2.3m/s); Senegal’s Saly Sarr jumped a personal best 14.75m (0.9m/s), while another Cuban, Leyanis Perez Hernandez, was third with a wind-aided 14.60m (2.2m/s).

Pryce clocked 50.39 seconds over the quarter-mile with Norway’s Henriette Jaeger winning with a season’s best 49.52, ahead of Lurdes Gloria Manuel of Czechia 50.13 and Poland’s Natalia Bukowiecka taking third with 50.34.

Thomas-Dodd threw 18.83m in the women’s shot put as America Chase Jackson broke the meet record with a season’s best 20.74m, over the 20.26m set by New Zealand’s Valerie Adams in 2011.

World leader Jessica Schilder of the Netherlands was second with 20.11m and Canada’s Sarah Mitton finished third with 19.89m.

— Paul A Reid

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