Emanuel Archibald

Emanuel Archibald
Full name	Emanuel Archibald
nation	Guyana
birthday	9th September 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Georgetown ,  Guyana
size	165 cm
Weight	73 kg
Career
discipline	Long jump
Best performance	8.12 m
Trainer	Kerry-Lee Ricketts
status	active
last change: July 18, 2020

Emanuel Archibald (born September 9, 1994 in Georgetown ) is a Guyanese athlete who competes in sprint and long jump at the start.

Athletic career

Emanuel Archibald took part in the national long jump championships for the first time in 2016 and immediately won with 7.53 m. The following year he rose to 7.71 m and also competed in the long jump at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku, where he finished eighth. Also in 2017 he started to start in the sprint over 100 and 200 meters. He takes part in most of his competitions in Jamaica, where he lives and studies at the University of the West Indies on a grant from the Guyanese government. In February 2018 he set his personal best over 100 meters with a time of 10.22 s. Two months later, he started at the Commonwealth Games in Australia over this distance . He moved into the semifinals, in which he was eliminated as seventh of his run. Overall, he finished 30th. In the long jump he failed in the qualification at the same event. A few months after the games, he was able to jump the eight-meter mark for the first time. At the end of July, he also took part in the Central American and Caribbean Games in Colombia. While he was eliminated in the semi-finals in the 100-meter run, he finished fourth in the long jump.

At the beginning of May 2019, Archibald set a new national record in the long jump with 8.12 m. Only a few weeks later he initially competed over 100 meters at the South American Championships in Lima. He finished fifth with 10.56 s. Just one day after the final, he also competed in the long jump. There he took fourth place. In August he took part in the Pan American Games in the same place . In the long jump he did not get more than 7.22 m, which put him in eleventh place. He failed over 100 meters in the lead. Overall, he finished 17th. After all, he was able to take part in a world championship for the first time in Doha in September . He landed in 23rd place.

Major competitions

year	event	place	space	discipline	Distance / time
Starts for Guyana
2018	Commonwealth Games	Gold coast	30th	100 m	10.46 s
			21st	Long jump	7.24 m
	Central America and Caribbean Games	Barranquilla	5. (semifinals)	100 m	10.17 s (+2.1)
			4th	Long jump	7.83 m
2019	South American Championships	Lima	5.	100 m	10.56 s
			4th	Long jump	7.66 m
	Pan American Games	Lima	17th	100 m	10.60 s
			11.	Long jump	7.22 m
	World championships	Doha	23.	Long jump	7.56 m

Personal best

open air

• 100 m : 10.22 s, February 10, 2018, Kingston
• 200 m : 20.92 s, June 30, 2019, Georgetown
• Long jump : 8.12 m, May 11, 2019, Kingston, (Guyanese record)

Web links

• Emanuel Archibald in the database of World Athletics (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on the Commonwealth Games 2018 website
2. ↑ Profile on Eurosport
3. ↑ Singh, Ravin (2019-05-13). Archibald resets national long jump record . newsroom.gy. accessed on 2020-07-18.
4. ↑ Toney, Rawle (2019-09-27). Archibald leaps into action today at IAAF World Athletics Championship . guyanachronicle. accessed on 2020-07-18.
5. ↑ Results on the Commonwealth Games 2018 website