Pinnock earns World Champs long jump silver, McLeod finishes fourth

BUDAPEST, Hungary – Razorbacks Wayne Pinnock and Carey McLeod placed second and fourth in the closest long jump competition in World Championship history as the gold and silver medals were decided by half an inch with the second to last jump in the event on Thursday evening at the National Athletics Center.

Pinnock collected the third silver medal for Jamaica as well as Arkansas at a World Championship, joining countryman James Beckford (1995, 2003), and Razorbacks Erick Walder (1997) and Jarrion Lawson (2017).

With a mark of 27-10.75 (8.50) in the second round, Pinnock held the lead over 2021 Olympic champion Miltialdis Tentoglou of Greece, who opened with the same distance, based on a better secondary mark at that stage of the competition. McLeod occupied third place with his leap of 27-1.75 (8.27) in the second round.