One more successful year followed. In 1998 he was runner-up at the USA Indoors, then third at the 1998 USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, tying with Hollis Conway. He represented the United States at the 1998 Goodwill Games and took the sole international medal of his career – a bronze – behind world record holder Javier Sotomayor and teammate Charles Austin. His best mark of the year was , which he achieved at the Weltklasse Zürich meet, placed him in the top 25 globally. He tried to continue competing, but after best jumps of the in the 1999 and 2000 seasons, he retired from the sport.