Jaydon Hibbert

Jaydon Hibbert (born 17 January 2005) is a Jamaican track and field athlete. At the age of 17, he won the gold medal in the triple jump at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships, after silver in the previous 2021 edition.

Hibbert holds the world U20 outdoor and indoor records in the triple jump and the Jamaican senior record at the latter.

On 14 December 2023, Hibbert would go on to win the prestigious Bowerman award - collegiate track and field's version the Heisman.

Personal life
Jaydon Hibbert attended Kingston College in Kingston. Upon graduation in 2022 he enrolled at University of Arkansas and began competing for Arkansas Razorbacks track and field team, joining compatriots Wayne Pinnock and Carey McLeod, amongst others.

Career
Hibbert made his international debut at age 16, in July 2021, at the NACAC Under-18 Championships in Athletics held in San José, Costa Rica, where he won the triple jump competition and placed second in the long jump. The following month, competing against athletes up to three years his senior, he took the silver medal for the triple jump at the World U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya with a leap of 16.05 m.

In April 2022, Hibbert won both the long jump and the triple jump titles at the 2022 CARIFTA Games in Kingston. In June that year, he won the senior triple jump title at the Jamaican Championships held also in Kingston. In August, he broke the championship record with his first jump in the final of the World U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia. Measured at 17.27 m it was a personal best by 61 cm and placed him second on the U18 all-time list. In fact, his second jump of 16.82 m would also have been enough to win the competition.

In March 2023, Hibbert set an outright world U20 triple jump record, jumping 17.54 m to take the title at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He beat the outdoor mark of 17.50 m that had stood for 38 years and the 1986 collegiate indoor record. In May, the 18-year-old sailed out to 17.87 m at the SEC Championships in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to move up to 13th on the world all-time list. He improved directly the old world U20 record and even older NCAA best set back in 1982.

In July 2023 Hibbert signed an NIL deal with Puma.

Hibbert qualified first for the final of the triple jump with a jump of 17.70m at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. However, he had to pull out of the event with a hamstring strain.

He jumped 17.57 metres to win the Jamaica International in May 2024. He bettered that with a 17.75 metres jump to win the Racers Grand Prix in Kingston, Jamaica on 1 June 2024.

Achievements
All information from World Athletics profile.

Personal bests

 * Long jump – (Kingston 2022)
 * Triple jump – (Baton Rouge, LA 2023) 
 * Triple jump U18 – (Cali 2022)
 * Triple jump indoor – (Albuquerque, NM 2023) ' '

International competitions
1No mark in the final

National and NCAA titles

 * Jamaican Athletics Championships
 * Triple jump: 2022
 * NCAA Division I Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships
 * Triple jump: 2023