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Wayne Pinnock

Wayne Pinnock (born 24 October 2000) is a Jamaican long jumper. He won silver medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2023 World Championships and 2025 World Indoor Championships.

Pinnock won the collegiate long jump double in 2022, winning the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor titles. That year, he made his senior major championship debut at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, placing ninth overall.

With his first jump at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023, Pinnock achieved a new personal best distance of 8.54 metres, and it was enough for him to win the silver medal at the event.

He won the long jump NCAA Indoor Championships in March 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts. With his effort of 8.40 metres, he equalled the Jamaican indoor record, matching the mark achieved previously by James Beckford and Carey McLeod. He won the long jump at the SEC Championship in Gainesville, Florida on 10 May 2024.

In June 2024, he placed second at the Jamaican Athletics Championships long jump with a leap of 8.27 metres. Selected as part of the Jamaican team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, he won the silver medal with a jump of 8.36 metres.

He was named in the Jamaican team for the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Nanjing in March 2025, where he won another global competition silver medal with a season's best 8.29 metres, 1 cm behind winner Mattia Furlani, and 1 cm ahead of Australian bronze medalist Liam Adcock.

He won the 2025 London Athletics Meet, part of the 2025 Diamond League with a jump of 8.20 metres, 1 centimetre ahead of second place Miltiadis Tentoglou. He placed fourth at the Diamond League Final in Zurich on 28 August.

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