T&T's Lon­don Olympics Games javelin gold medal­list, Keshorn Wal­cott end­ed in sixth spot for the sec­ond straight week, this time at the Sam­sung Di­a­mond League Meet held at the Shang­hai Sta­di­um, Chi­na, yes­ter­day.Wal­cott, who was al­so sixth in Do­ha, last week in his first Di­a­mond event with a throw of 79.79 me­tres, on­ly mus­tered a dis­tance of 79.92 me­tres this time around to fin­ish in sixth spot among an 11-man field, one spot ahead of African cham­pi­on, Kenya's Julius Yego (78.23), who was al­so a Lon­don fi­nal­ist.

An 87.60m world lead throw took 2007 World cham­pi­on Tero Pitka­ma­ki of Fin­land to a nar­row vic­to­ry in the men's Javelin. The Finn had pre­vi­ous­ly held the world lead at 86.40m.

Sec­ond-placed Vitezslav Vese­ly of Czech Re­pub­lic, last year's win­ner threw 86.67m to al­so bet­ter the pre­vi­ous world lead while Rus­sia's Dmitriy Tara­bin threw 85.36m for third ahead of Fin­land's Ari Man­nio (83.43) and Chi­na's Quing­gang Zhao (81.18) while Wal­cott's Olympic pre­de­ces­sor in 2004 and 2008, Nor­way's An­dreas Thork­ild­sen, failed to reg­is­ter a valid throw.

The meet in Shang­hai was the third out­ing for Wal­cott so far this sea­son af­ter he be­gan his sea­son with an im­pres­sive 84.39 throw at the T&T Elite Twi­light Games which was held at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on May 3.

T&T's Lalonde Gor­don al­so did not get among the medals af­ter a fifth place fin­ish in a high­ly com­pet­i­tive men's 400m fi­nal won by Grena­da's Olympic and World cham­pi­on, Ki­rani James,

For the first time since his win in Lon­don last Au­gust, James faced fel­low Lon­don 400m men's medal­lists, Luguelin San­tos of Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic and T&T's Gor­don, as well as for­mer World and Olympic cham­pi­on LaShawn Mer­ritt.And the young Grena­di­an, af­ter mak­ing up the stag­ger on Mer­ritt as they came on­to the fi­nal bend and briefly run­ning in step pulled away to win in 44.02 ahead Mer­ritt (44.60), San­tos (45.11), Bel­gium's Jonathan Bor­lee (45.57) and Gor­don (46.39). James's time equalled the meet record set by Je­re­my Wariner in 2007 and is the fastest ever 400m time wit­nessed at a Di­a­mond League meet­ing.

James is the on­ly non-US ath­lete to have bro­ken 44 sec­onds for 400m and he has start­ed 2013 in the same man­ner he fin­ished the Olympic year.In the women's Shot Put, T&T's Cleopa­tra Borel failed to reg­is­ter a valid throw in the event won by Ger­many's Christi­na Schwanitz, who wast­ed no time in set­ting down new mark­ers.With her first throw, the 27-year-old Ger­man land­ed the shot at a per­son­al best 19.76m, with her sec­ond she cracked the 20m mark with 20.12m and with her fifth she was again in new ter­ri­to­ry with 20.20m.Three per­son­al bests for the com­pe­ti­tion and a fi­nal mark close enough to Va­lerie Adams' world lead 20.37m–it may be a lit­tle pre­ma­ture to sug­gest Schwanitz can chal­lenge the in­domitable Adams, but she cer­tain­ly has shak­en up the world or­der.Sec­ond was Li­jiao Gong of Chi­na with a throw of 19.73 me­tres while USA's Michelle Carter grabbed bronze witha throw of 18.83.