GUYANA’s Emanuel Archibald finished second in the Men’s Long Jump at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) New Life Invitational.
The event, which is part of the World Athletics Continental Tour (Silver), took place in Miramar, Florida, on Saturday.
Archibald, Guyana’s national record-holder in the long Jump, leaped a distance of 7.95 metres to finish behind America’s Damarcus Simpson (8.06m), but ahead of Ifeanyichukwu Otuonye (7.69m) from the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Archibald is competing to achieve the Olympic Standard of 8.22m before the International Olympic Committee’s June 13 cut-off date. However, if he doesn’t, he’s hoping to have enough ranking points to get the nod from the IOC and World Athletics for Tokyo.

Archibald had set the country’s new national record in the men’s long Jump (8.12m) in 2019 in Jamaica.
He started his seasons this year with an 8.10m leap which, at the time, was world-leading in the Long Jump.
In fact, 7.95m is his fourth best legal jump of all-time.
Meanwhile, Andrea Foster, competing in the women’s 800m finals, ran two minutes, 16.69 seconds to finish eighth.
Jeremy Bascom, who competed in the 100m, ran the preliminaries with Trayvon Bromell, but his 10.75 seconds was not good enough to advance to the finals.
Bromell would go on to clock the seventh fastest time in the men’s 100m by running 9.77 seconds to win the men’s 100m at the event. It is also the fastest 100m time in the world this year, so far.