Carey McLeod (born 14 April 1998) is a

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...

n athlete who competes in the

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

and

triple jump The triple jump, sometimes referred to as the hop, step and jump or the hop, skip and jump, is a track and field event, similar to the long jump. As a group, the two events are referred to as the "horizontal jumps". The competitor runs down th ...

. McLeod studied at Kingston College in Jamaica before moving to the

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. He placed himself among the top-10 triple-jumping collegians in

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indoor history, recording a mark of 17.17m to win the men’s

at the SEC Championships in Fayetteville. As well as setting a new school record he surpassed the 2020 Olympic qualifying standard, in addition to being the No. 1 mark in the NCAA and No. 3 in the world for the 2020-21 indoor campaign. His efforts in both the long jump and the triple jump earned him a nomination for the NCAA indoor field event athlete of 2020. As well as the 17.17 personal best in the triple jump, at the same event in Fayetteville he jumped a personal best 8.25 in the

. On 14 May 2021 he jumped 8.34m in the long jump at the Cushing Stadium in

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to place him second on the senior list for 2021 at the time of the jump, behind JuVaughn Harrison. McLeod beat Harrison when he made that jump in Texas, who jumped 10 cm less at 8.24m for second place that day. That jump lifted McLeod to fourth on the all time Jamaican list.

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Tennessee Volunteers bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:McLeod, Carey 1998 births Living people Jamaican male long jumpers Jamaican male triple jumpers Tennessee Volunteers men's track and field athletes Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Jamaica 20th-century Jamaican people 21st-century Jamaican people