field finals on Saturday.

Having suffered a discouraging summer, the Bermuda triple jump ace had to settle for a fourth-place finish with a leap of 56 feet (17.07 metres) at the lucrative final stop in Milan, Italy.

And finishing ahead of him were the three medallists from the Olympic Games.

World record holder Jonathan Edwards of Britain, second in Atlanta, won the meet with a jump of 57-81 feet. Cuban Yoelvis Quesada was second (57-3 ), followed by US gold medallist Kenny Harrison.