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Walcott 4th in Monaco Diamond League

Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott finished fourth in the men’s javelin, at the Herculis IAAF Diamond League meet, in Monaco, yesterday. The reigning Olympic champion threw 83.54 metres in the opening round, but was unable to improve on the mark. The closest he came was in round four when he landed the spear 83.37m.

Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki threw 88.87m to grab gold, forcing Vitezslav Vesely to settle for silver with an 85.44m effort. Vesely’s Czech Republic teammate, Jakub Vadlejch (84.32m) finished third. Kenyan Julius Yego, who beat Walcott into second spot at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, was sixth yesterday with an 81.79m throw.

Last week Thursday, Walcott produced the best throw of his career, the 22-year-old Toco athlete capturing the Athletissima IAAF Diamond League title with a huge 90.16m effort.

Walcott is the 14th member of the elite 90-metre club. With his 90.16m monster throw, he jumped from 59th to 14th on the world all-time list.

Keston Bledman finished fifth in the Herculis men’s 100m dash. The T&T sprinter clocked 10.10 seconds.

Justin Gatlin continued his rich vein of form with a scintillating meet record run of 9.78 seconds. Gatlin won easily, finishing well ahead of his fellow-American Tyson Gay, the runner-up in 9.97. France’s Jimmy Vicaut got home in 10.03 to finish third, while fourth spot went to Great Britain’s Chijindu Ujah (10.08).

Gatlin has raced unbeaten in individual events this year, and has dived under 9.80 seconds four times in five 100m outings.

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