MONTEGO BAY, St James — Despite winning the long jump at the British Trials on Saturday and placing second in the triple jump yesterday, former Jamaica and Wolmer’s Boys School representative Julian Reid is still short of the B qualifying standard in both events and his place in Britain’s team to the next month’s IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea is still up in the air.

On Saturday Reid won the long jump event held at the Birmingham Alexander stadium with 8.06m, beating JJ Jegede who jumped 8.04m for second place and Dan Bramble who was third in 7.65m, both personal bests.

Reid, who turned his back on Jamaica to compete for Great Britain, has a personal best of 8.08m done at the Jamaican Trials last month but needs to get at least 8.10m for the B qualifying standard.

Depending on the deadline for making the Great Britain team, Reid will have to seek competition soon as he is not listed on the start lists for either event at this weekend’s Aviva Grand Prix in London later this week.

His switch had caused some amount of controversy both here and in Great Britain. The Jamaica Athletics Administrative Association (JAAA) had not released him but he was cleared by the IAAF, the world’s governing body for the sport as his last competition for Jamaica was at the IAAF World Championships in 2009.

Colin Jackson, a former Great Britain sprint hurdler, had criticised the British track body for going after athletes with British passports to bolster their team.

Reid’s winning jump in the long jump on Saturday came on his second to last attempt after he had a best of 8.04 (2.0m/s) on the previous try.

Britons Christopher Tomlinson and Greg Rutherford, who have already attained the A qualifying standard, did not take part in the championships.

Reid competed at the Jamaican National Trials in June after accepting the chance to compete for Great Britain and placed second, beaten by a wind-aided 8.17m jump by Tarick Batchelor.

Yesterday’s closing day of the three day Trials, Reid took the runner-up spot in the hop, step and jump with 16.53m, beaten by Larry Achike’s season-best 16.83m.

This was short of his season-best 16.77m and the B qualifying standard of 16.85m to join Phillips Idowu on the Great Britain team to Daegu.

Presently Reid, who has a personal best of 16.98m in the triple jump set two years ago, is the second ranked triple jumper in Great Britain, behind Idowu.

Meanwhile, another former Wolmer’s Boys athlete who switched allegiance to compete for Great Britain Germaine Mason was fifth in the high jump yeterday with a best of 2.12m.

The Olympic silver medallist started the competition at 2.08m, then missed first attempt at 2.12m before failing to get over 2.16m.