Long jumper McLeod wins first Diamond League event
KINGSTON, Jamaica — World Championships finalist Carey McLeod won his first Diamond League event when he took the men’s long jump with a wind-aided 8.52m (5.2m/s) at Friday’s third meeting in Doha, Qatar.
McLeod got his big jump in the fourth round that took him from fourth place and held on to beat World and Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, who had a season’s best 8.36m (1.9m/s) in the final round, as well as Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer with a wind-aided 8.30m (2.6m/s).
Former World Champion Tajay Gayle was fifth with a wind-aided 8.01m (2.8m/s).
Meanwhile, many-time champion Natoya Goule-Toppin was sixth in the women’s 800m in 1:59.74 seconds in her first outdoor 800m of the season.
Sprinters Natasha Morrison and Andrew Hudson were seventh in their respective events; Morrison ran 11.37 seconds (2.0m/s) in the women’s 100m and Hudson clocked 20.53 seconds (1.7m/s).
— Paul A Reid