JAMAICA’S World Championships finalist Carey McLeod was pleased with his first Wanda Diamond League victory after he beat world and Olympic champion Miltiadis Tentoglou in the men’s long jump at Suhaim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, Qatar, with a wind-aided 8.52m (5.2m/s) effort on Friday.

McLeod, who was fourth at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, last year, produced the longest “all conditions” jump of the year so far.

“The result today was good, apart from the win.

“Everyone tries to push themselves — it is a great feeling — [so] in order to win I have to jump something amazing,” said McLeod who had managed 7.93m for fourth at the previous Diamond League stop in Shanghai, China.

He is already looking ahead to his next outing. “I will just go back home to see how good I can prepare for the next competition. [Jumping] 8.52 is amazing. I feel good here; the crowd is amazing.”

Tentoglou, who has developed a habit of winning on the final jump, was also impressed by McLeod.

“The Jamaican guy jumped 8.52. I couldn’t get him tonight; I tried in my last effort but it is too early in the season for me at the moment. The most positive thing I take from this event is that I really felt happy when McLeod made the winning 8.52 jump. I really felt nice and it made me try to get farther than him. I enjoy it more at an event when another competitor makes longer jumps and pushes me for more.”

McLeod got his big jump in the fourth round that took him from fourth place. He held on to beat Tentoglou who had a season-best 8.36m (1.9m/s) in the final round. Switzerland’s Simon Ehammer achieved a wind-aided 8.30m (2.6m/s) while former world champion Tajay Gayle of Jamaica was fifth with a wind-aided 8.01m (2.8m/s).

Natoya Goule-Toppin was sixth in the women’s 800m.

Jamaica’s many-time national champion Natoya Goule-Toppin was sixth in the women’s 800m in 1:59.74 minutes 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) in the men’s 200.