Tajay Gayle, Jamaica's first world long-jump champion, can go on to break t...
DOHA - Tajay Gayle, Jamaica’s first world long-jump champion, can go on to break the world record, his coach Stephen Francis said on Sunday.
“That is the aim,” Francis told Reuters from the training track at the Khalifa Stadium, a day after Gayle jumped a personal best of 8.69 meters to beat favorite Juan Miguel Echevarria of Cuba to the gold medal in Doha. “He was 23 this year and he has only been with us for four years so, given the lifespan of the athletes who we normally have, barring injuries and bad luck and him being able to cope with all that this will bring and to focus, I think he’ll go a lot further in the near future,” he said.
“Obviously it is quite satisfying that he went further than I had expected him to go. I expected him to go 8.5m or thereabouts and it’s a tribute to his ability to concentrate and ignore the pressure and to execute to get as far as he did with the 10th furthest jump in the World,” Francis added.
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