Despite winning a gold medal in the long jump at the FLOW CARIFTA Games in The Bahamas last weekend, long jumper Chantoba Bright could miss out on this year’s International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF) World U20 championships.
The region’s top U20 female long jumper, Bright, who produced a gold medal performance (5.95m) at the CARIFTA Games last year and this past weekend, has until July 2 to achieve the entry standard of 6.15m to compete at the event scheduled for July 10-15 in Tampere, Finland.
Bright has a career best of 6.30m in the long jump event.
