KANSAS, Unit­ed States – Trinidad and To­ba­go long jumper, Tyra Git­tens-Spotsville pro­duced a record-break­ing leap on her way to cap­tur­ing gold at the K-State De­loss Dodds In­vi­ta­tion­al event over the week­end.

Git­tens-Spotsville leapt 6.83 me­tres with her fourth jump to se­cure gold in the event, im­prov­ing on the 6.70m Trinidad and To­ba­go in­door record she had es­tab­lished in the pre­vi­ous round.

The 27-year-old opened the com­pe­ti­tion with a 6.55m jump and fol­lowed up with an ef­fort mea­sured at 6.50m. She then stepped up her game in round three, bet­ter­ing her own 6.68m T&T in­door record.

How­ev­er, the new mark did not last long, as Git­tens-Spotsville im­proved on that record in em­phat­ic fash­ion in the next round.

Fol­low­ing the 6.83m ef­fort, she jumped 6.58m and then passed in the sixth and fi­nal round.

That per­for­mance leaves her fourth on the 2026 world in­door per­for­mance list. Italy’s Laris­sa Iapichi­no is the glob­al leader at 6.93m, fol­lowed by Amer­i­can Sophia Beck­mon (6.85m) and Por­tu­gal’s Agate De Sousa (6.84m).

It is the sec­ond-best jump of the US-based ath­lete’s ca­reer, bet­tered on­ly by the 6.96 na­tion­al out­door record she es­tab­lished in 2021.

CMC