Previous years

8th edition – 2023

We became part of the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze.
For the first time, our meeting was broadcasted live in TV on the RTVS Sport channel.
The biggest star was reigning Diamond League champion Andy Díaz Hernandez.

During this year’s campaign, we achieved more than 15 million views of short videos on Instagram and Tiktok.
We launched the Open category for nonpro athletes. In the very first edition, more than 40 athletes from 15 countries (India, Israel, Sweden) arrived at their own expense.
For the first time, JBL Jump Fest was recorded by a professional crew and the replay of the event was seen by more than 800 K viewers on RTVS ŠPORT and O2TV SPORT tv channels.

Covid-19 restrictions affected also the fifth edition of the meeting.
For the first time, JBL Jump Fest had 2 competition days.
The flat women’s 60-yard sprint had its premiere. At that time, the talented Viktória Forster, who later became the university world champion in the 100-meter hurdles, was part of this debut.

The success was the execution of the meeting itself. The situation regarding Covid-19 was quite serious. Just 3 weeks after the end of the 5th edition, the sport facilities were closed for 8 months.
Due to pandemic restrictions, the start list of the Elite category had to be narrowed down to athletes only from neighboring countries.
During this year, we partnered with the largest jumping community, Jumpers World.

The most famous manufacturer of athletic surfaces, MONDO, included our project among the TOP 15 street athletics meetings in the world. It was a huge success for such a young meeting.
The whole event was in the spirit of saying goodbye to the extremely successful careers of Danka and Janka Velďáková.
The debut of women’s hurdles sprint with the participation of our elite hurdler Stanislava Škvarková.

Flat sprints were for the first time part of the competition program.
2 arenas were created. The jumping one was moved to Main square near the Urban tower, and the sprint arena was created in the original place.
Athletes were competing on the MONDO surface, same surface as most of the Olympic stadiums are using.

Flat sprints were for the first time part of the competition program.
2 arenas were created. The jumping one was moved to Main square near the Urban tower, and the sprint arena was created in the original place.
Athletes were competing on the MONDO surface, same surface as most of the Olympic stadiums are using.

On September 15, 2016, dreams became reality and a “street athletics” meeting was held in Košice.
Twins Dana and Jana Velďáková became the ambassadors of the event.
The host of the event was great athletics manager Alfons Juck.