Tyra Git­tens leapt to gold in the women's long jump at the Troyes In­ter­na­tion­al Meet in Troyes, France on Sun­day.

The mul­ti­ple na­tion­al record-hold­er took the top spot with a dis­tance of 6.56 me­tres. Her win­ning mark was a meet record and her best leap for the 2024 sea­son. The three-time US Col­le­giate cham­pi­on opened with 6.26m be­fore im­prov­ing to 6.36m. She fouled her third ef­fort and then achieved her best jump of 6.56m in the fourth round. The 2017 Carif­ta girls' Un­der-20 hep­tathlon cham­pi­on then end­ed with 6.38m and 6.23m.

Por­tu­gal's Evelise Viegs was sec­ond with Ya­nis David of France in third. Both record­ed 6.35m.

The tri­umph was the first for Git­tens since fin­ish­ing col­lege and joined the pro­fes­sion­al cir­cuit. She was elat­ed at her maid­en vic­to­ry and post­ed on her In­sta­gram page: "Cel­e­brat­ing my very first pro­fes­sion­al win. (I am) look­ing for­ward to many more. Thanks to every­one who has be­lieved in me even when I strug­gled to see what was worth be­liev­ing in. I love you all."

Git­tens is seek­ing to qual­i­fy for her sec­ond Olympic Games. The 26-year-old was 11th in the women's long jump fi­nals at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. She is in pur­suit of the Paris Olympics 6.86m stan­dard and is cur­rent­ly list­ed at 55th on the Qual­i­fi­ca­tion rank­ings. The for­mer Pan Amer­i­can U-20 bronze medal­list has un­til June 30, the close of the Olympic qual­i­fy­ing pe­ri­od, to achieve the stan­dard or per­form sig­nif­i­cant­ly well to move the World Rank­ings and be among the top 32 to be in­vit­ed to the Paris Olympics set for Ju­ly 26 to Au­gust 11.

The na­tion­al men's 4x100m team mem­bers were hop­ing to im­prove their rank­ing to se­cure a spot in Paris. How­ev­er, the quar­tet of Kion Ben­jamin, Jonathan Far­in­ha, Omari Lewis and Devin Au­gus­tine clocked 38.99 sec­onds to fin­ish sec­ond at the NACAC New Life In­vi­ta­tion­al in Nas­sau, Ba­hamas on Sun­day.

T&T cur­rent­ly sits at the 16th on the World Rank­ings for the men's 4x100m and with 16 teams to qual­i­fy for Paris, the lo­cal sprint­ers could be oust­ed should any oth­er team sur­pass the 38.30 post­ed by the red, white and black run­ners at the World Re­lays in the Ba­hamas on May 5.

With the African Cham­pi­onships com­ing up lat­er this week in Cameroon all eyes will be in the men's 4x100m re­lay fi­nals as Botswana and Kenya seek to sur­pass T&T's team and se­cure their tick­ets to Paris.

Af­ter Ben­jamin, Far­in­ha, Lewis and Au­gus­tine com­plet­ed re­lay du­ties for T&T in Nas­sau on Sun­day they con­test­ed the in­di­vid­ual events.

Far­in­ha won the men's 200m B fi­nals in a sea­son's best time of 20.69 sec­onds, 0.01 off his per­son­al best. Lewis was third in the men's 100m A fi­nals in 10.10 sec­onds, miss­ing his best time of 10.08 set ear­li­er this year. Au­gus­tine was sev­enth (10.21). Ben­jamin raced to sil­ver in the B fi­nals in 10.21.

All four are ex­pect­ed to clash at the Na­tion­al Ju­nior and Se­nior Cham­pi­onships at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo, Port-of-Spain on June 28-30.

Le Bron James se­cured sil­ver in the men's javelin at the French For­ay Meet No 3 in Kingston, Ja­maica on Sat­ur­day. James, a Sixth Form stu­dent at Ja­maica Col­lege, had a best throw of 67.07 as his school-mate and com­pa­tri­ot Do­ri­an Charles was fourth.

Charles, the 2023 Carif­ta boys' U-20 javelin sil­ver medal­list, had a best ef­fort of 60.58. James threw 68.50m at the French For­ay Meet No 1 on May 18, sur­pass­ing the 68.00m stan­dard for the men's javelin for the 2024 World Un­der 20 Track and Field Cham­pi­onships in Li­ma, Pe­ru from Au­gust 27-31.

Re­sults

NACAC New Life In­vi­ta­tion­al (Thomas A Robin­son Sta­di­um, Nas­sau, Ba­hamas)

Men's

4x100m: 1 Ba­hamas 38.89; 2 T&T (Kion Ben­jamin, Jonathan Far­in­ha, Omari Lewis, Devin Au­gus­tine) 38.99; 3 Haiti 39.52

100m

A Fi­nal (+1.2 m/s): 1 Wayne Mc Coy (Ba­hamas) 10.06; 2 Davonte How­ell (Cay­man Is­lands) 10.10 pb; 3 Omari Lewis (T&T) 10.10; 7 Devin Au­gus­tine (T&T) 10.21

B Fi­nal (+1.3 m/s): 1 Ter­rence Jones (Ba­hamas) 10.13; 2 Kion Ben­jamin (T&T) 10.21 SB; 3 Dar­ren Mc­Queen (USA) 10.23

200m

B Fi­nal (+1.6 m/s): 1 Jonathan Far­in­ha (T&T) 20.69 SB; 2 Ashanie Smith (Ja­maica) 20.83; 3 Bri­an Lim­age (Hairi) 21.14

Meet­ing In­ter­na­tion­al Troyes-Aube (Troyes, France) - June 16

Women

Long jump: 1 Tyra Git­tens (Kaizen Pan­thers) 6.56/+1.71 (6.26, 6.36, X, 6.56, 6.38, 6.23); 2 Evelise Vie­ga (Por­tu­gal) 6.35; 3 Ya­nis David (France) 6.35

Adi­das Out­door High Schools Cham­pi­onships (T John­son Track and Field Com­plex, Greens­boro, North Car­oli­na) - June 14-16

Girls

400m hur­dles: 19th Jen­na-Marie Thomas (Spire/IG Fast­lane) 1;06.10

New Bal­ance Na­tion­al Out­doors (Franklyn Field, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia) - June 13-16

Boys.

100m

Semi­fi­nals: 20 (5h3) Dy­lan Woodruffe (IMG Acad­e­my/Cougars) 10.65

First Round: 21 (2h2) Woodruffe 10.63(+1.2)

French For­ay No 3 (Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, Kingston, Ja­maica) - June 15

Men's

Javelin: 2 Le­bron James (Ja­maica Col­lege) 67.07; 4 Do­ri­an Charles (Ja­maica Col­lege/Pt Fortin New Jets) 60.58

400m: 29 Makae­lan Woods (Ja­maica Col­lege/IG Fast­lane) 50.73; 30 Jabari Branche (Ja­maica Col­lege/Abi­lene Wild­cats) 50.86