Top-tier Jamaican long jumper Carey McLeod, a two-time national champion and 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist, has received a two-year competitive suspension from World Athletics’ Athletes Integrity Unit (AIU) following a violation of anti-doping whereabouts rules, official reports confirmed Monday.
The 24-year-old athlete has openly admitted to breaching anti-doping regulations and agreed to the imposed penalty after accumulating three missed out-of-competition doping tests within a 12-month monitoring window. Under global anti-doping protocols maintained by World Athletics, all elite track and field athletes are legally required to keep anti-doping authorities updated on their daily location to facilitate unannounced, random testing. Three failures to be available for testing within a year automatically triggers formal sanctions, per the governing body’s strict anti-doping rules.
Public records of the violation outline that McLeod missed scheduled tests on three separate occasions: June 30, 2025, August 9, 2025, and May 1, 2026. His period of ineligibility officially started on May 28, 2026, and is set to conclude on May 27, 2028, meaning he will be barred from all official competitive athletic events for the full two-year term. The ban marks a major career setback for McLeod, who had emerged as one of Jamaica’s most promising long jump talents ahead of upcoming global competitions.
Reporting by Paul A Reid