Ricketts PC’s Tajay Gayle produced an excellent performance to win the men’s long jump in the morning session of the 2025 Gibson McCook Relays at the National Stadium in Kingston on Saturday. The 2019 World Champion flew out to a meet record and season’s best 8.34m in the sixth and round to take the win.

He opened the competition with a foul in the first round and had distances of 7.82m, 7.62m and 7.69m in the next three rounds before another foul in round five, after which he produced his winning effort.

Shawn-D Thompson of SprinTec was second with a season’s best 7.88m while Aubrey Allen of Swept Track Club was third with a wind-aided 7.69m

Gayle’s clubmate Tissana Hickling took the women’s equivalent comfortably with a season’s best 6.61m.

Utech’s Canniga Powell was second with a personal best 6.06m while Bethlehem Moravian College’s Analisa Redmond was third with 5.70m.

GC Foster’s Lushane Wilson cleared a season’s best 2.20m to win the men’s high jump ahead of JC’s Chavez Penn (2.10m) and Wolmer’s Boys’ Kabiki Thomas (2.00m).

St. Andrew High’s Shanniqua Williams cleared a season’s best 1.75m to win the women’s event ahead of Holmwood’s Mikayla Longmore who did a personal best 1.65m in second. William Knibb’s Cheyenne Cooper was third with the same height as Longmore, also a personal best.