(L-R) Jamaica´s Raymond Richards, South Korea’s Woo Sang-hyeok and New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr celebrate after competing in the men's high jump final during the Indoor World Athletics Championships in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, on March 21, 2025.
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March 21, 2025
World Indoors: Raymond Richards takes high jump bronze
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Raymond Richards won Jamaica’s first medal at the World Athletics Indoor Championships when he took the bronze in the men’s high jump at the Nanjing Cube in Nanjing, China Friday morning (Jamaica time), clearing 2.28 m.
The former Buff Bay High athlete, who was in his first international competition, needed only one attempt to get through the first three heights — 2.14 m, 2.20 m and 2.24 m — before clearing 2.28 m on his second attempt.
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Richards was one of four men to clear 2.28 m as New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr took second on countback, while American Elijah Kosiba was fourth and Oleh Doroshchuk of Ukraine was fifth. Korea’s Sanghyeok Woo won the gold medal with 2.31 m, equalling his season’s best.
Jamaica’s other competitor, Olympic finalist Romaine Beckford, placed ninth, clearing 2.14 m, the opening height.
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Meanwhile, Jamaica’s Jordan Scott was promoted to fourth place in the men’s triple jump after his protest against Brazilian Almir Dos Santos was upheld, a report said.
Scott had originally finished fifth with 17.10 m, and the Brazilian was third originally before his disqualification, as a result, Hugues Fabrice Zango of Burkina Faso was elevated into the bronze medal position behind winner Andy Diaz Hernandez of Italy and China’s Yaming Zhu.
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