FORMER World Athletics Indoor Championships medallist Carey McLeod was the only Jamaican winner at the Atlanta City Games held at Piedmont Park, winning the men’s long jump elite with 8.33m (1.6m/s) in his first competition of the season.

Deandre Daley, who was making his first overseas appearance as a professional, was third in the men’s 100m elite after Oblique Seville failed to make it to the final. Orlando Bennett was third in the 110m hurdles while Ackera Nugent failed to get out of the first round of the 100m hurdles.

The races were held on a five-lane elevated track, constructed specifically for the meet.

McLeod overtook Italy’s world leader Mattia Furlani in the fourth round, moving up from fourth place.

The Italian finished second with 8.28m (1.7m/s) while another newly minted professional, Nikaoli Williams, was fourth with a personal best 8.13m (1.6m/s).

Kingston-based Emanuel Archibald broke his own Guyanese national record when he jumped 8.22m (0.0m/s), improving on his previous best of 7.95m set in March at G C Foster College of Physical Education and Sport in Angels, St Catherine.

Daley, who ran 10.29 seconds (1.7m/s) in the semi-finals, clocked a wind-aided 10.12 seconds (2.3m/s) in the final that was won by world leader Akani Simbine of South Africa in 9.86 seconds, with Nigeria’s Udodi Onwuzurike finishing second in 10.05 seconds.

Kadrian Goldson ran 10.37 seconds (1.7m/s) for seventh overall in the heats, Seville clocked 10.53 seconds (1.1m/s) in his heat, while Ryiem Forde did not complete his first-round race.

Bennett ran 13.55 seconds (0.3m/s) for third in the 110m hurdles that was won by American Trey Cunningham (13.16), with his compatriot Freddie Crittenden second in 13.33 seconds.

Jamaica’s Orlando Bennett competes in the men’s 110 metre hurdles on day two of the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary, on Sunday, August 20, 2023. (Naphtali Junior)

Bryan Levell was fourth in a 200m race which was run in a straight line without the usual curve on the 400m track, clocking a wind-aided 20.06 seconds (2.2m/s). Demish Gaye was sixth in 20.54 seconds (2.2m/s), Jevaughn Powell seventh in 20.69 seconds (-1.2m/s), and Sean Bailey ninth in 21.37 seconds (-1.2m/).

Kingston-based Zharnel Hughes of Great Britain won with a wind-aided 19.55 seconds (2.2m/s), ahead of Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago (10.63) and South Africa’s Wayde Van Niekerk (20.03).

Ashanti Moore was third in the women’s 150m in 16.50 seconds (2.0m/s) as Nigeria’s Favour Ofili won with 15.85 seconds and American Tamari Davis placed third in 16.14 seconds.

Nugent, the third-fastest female sprint hurdler in the world, could only muster a wind-aided 12.60 seconds (3.0m/s) in the semi-finals of the 100m hurdles, good enough for sixth place and one better than Megan Tapper’s 12.66 seconds (3.0m/s), while Demisha Roswell was ninth with 12.81 seconds (2.1m/s).