GUYANA’S Emanuel Archibald failed to make it to final of the men’s Long Jump at the IAAF World Athletics Championships, which got on the way yesterday in Doha, Qatar.

Archibald, who entered the championship with a Personal Best of 8.12 metres, finished 23rd out of 26 competitors, with a best leap yesterday of 7.56 metres.

Meanwhile, Quamel Prince, the 25-year-old US-born and based athlete, will begin his quest to hand Guyana their first IAAF World Athletics Championships medal, when he competes in the men’s 800 metres today. Prince will be in Heat 5 of 6 and will be in Lane 7.

Prince, whose Personal Best of one minute, 45.58 seconds (1:45.58), at the time when it was clocked (May 17), was one of the top times in the world this year.

President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG) Aubrey Hutson, in an exclusive interview, had told Chronicle Sport that given Prince’s current form, “with the right athletes and competition around him, especially at this stage, you can never tell what could happen because he has the ability and potential to run faster.”