KINGSTON, Jamaica— Wayne Pinnock won Jamaica’s fourth medal at the Olympic Games and third silver after placing second in the men’s long jump at Stade de France in Paris.

This latest achievement adds to his silver medal in the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary last year.

Pinnock, who struggled with injuries this season and was second at the JAAA National Championships, in late jump produced 8.36m (-0.2m/s), his best outdoors this season, to secure second behind two-time champion Miltiadis Tentoglou of Greece, who won with 8.48m (0.0m/s) with teenager Mattia Furlani of Italy taking bronze with 8.34m(-1.0m/s).

He joins triple jumper Shanieka Ricketts and 100m sprinter Kishane Thompson with silver medals, while Rajindra Campbell had won bronze in the men’s shot put.

Carey McLeod, the World Indoor bronze medallist finished 12th with a best of 7.82m (-1.2m/s).

Pinnock, who won the NCAA indoor, joins James Beckford as Olympic Games long jump silver medallists after Beckford was second at the 1996 Games in Atlanta.

He started with 7.84m (-1.1m/s) but shot up to second in the second round and just managed to outdo the Italian who was winning his country’s first men’s long jump medal in 40 years when Alberto Cova won in Los Angeles in1984.

-Paul A Reid