Jamaica’s World Championship silver medallist Wayne Pinnock. (jamaica-gleaner. com file image)
Jamaicans Wayne Pinnock and Akelia Smith both jumped to world leading marks to record the guys and ladies’s long dive occasions at the University of New Mexico Collegiate Classic on Friday.
World Championship silver medallist Pinnock, representing the University of Arkansas, fouled his very first dive before signing up 8.34 metres on his 2nd effort to continue of Arnovis Dalmero of Colombia on the world list.
Smith, representing the University of Texas, had 4 of 5 marks over 6.50 metres on her method to a 6.85 metre mark to catch the ladies’s equivalent. Another Jamaican, Aaliyah Foster was 4th in case with an individual finest 6.46 metres.
At the very same fulfill, Shaquena Foote of San Diego State was 3rd in the females’s 400 metres in a time of 53.26 seconds.
In the females’s invitational 200 metres, Kevona Davis ended 4th in 22.90 seconds, while Bryana Lyston was 7th in 23.16.
Dejanea Oakley was 9th total in 23.34 with the occasion going to previous St Catherine High standout, St Lucian Julien Alfred in 22.16 seconds.