Athletics: Personal best by kiwi long jumper

Jessica Penney during the final of the women's high jump. Cancan Chu / Getty Images

New Zealand's Jessica Penney has finished 4th equal in the final of the women's long jump at the World Junior Athletics championships in Beijing.

The Wellington athlete jumped a personal best (PB) of six metres and 37 centimetres (6.37m) with her final attempt, equalling the distance achieved earlier by a French woman.

The gold medal in the event was won by Rhonda Watkins of Trinidad and Tobago, with a leap of six metres 46.

- nzherald staff