KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s high jumper Christoff Bryan will have one final chance to improve his chances of qualifying for the men’s high jump at next month’s World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary when he competes at the Meeting International Schifflange at Stade Jean Jacoby in Schifflange, Luxembourg.

Bryan, a former NCAA Division 1 outdoors champion, has a season’s best 2.24m, just off his lifetime best of 2.25m, and is just outside the World Ranking Quota at number 38th for an invitation to the August 19-27 championships.

The window for athletes making the qualifying mark for the World Championships in all events with the exception of a handful of events including the Marathon, Race Walks and Combined events (Decathlon and Heptathlon) close midnight on July 30, “regardless of time zone”, according to the World Athletics website.

The qualifying mark for the men’s high jump to the World Athletics Championships is 2.32m, but if there are not enough athletes to fill the quota of 36, athletes in the top 36 will be invited to participate.

The ISSA Boys Champs record holder is the third ranked Jamaican men’s high jumper this season, behind national champion Romaine Beckford (2.27m) and Lushane Wilson (2.26m), who are both are inside the top 36 in the quota.

Beckford, who won both the NCAA indoor and outdoor titles as well as the NACAC Under 23 last weekend, is ranked 27th and Wilson is ranked 31st.

Meanwhile, another 11 Jamaicans are scheduled to compete in the meet including two-time World Under-20 Championships 100m gold medallist Tina Clayton, who is down to contest the women’s 100m.

Clayton will be joined by her twin sister Tia, Krystal Sloley, Serena Cole, Jonielle Smith and Jura Levy.

Kishane Thompson will contest the men’s 100m; Amoi Brown will line up in the 100m hurdles while Javon Francis, Malik James-King and Wendell Miller are down to compete in the men’s 400m.