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Walcott smashes national record

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For the sec­ond time in lit­tle over a month, T&T's sole reign­ing Olympic gold medal­ist Keshorn Wal­cott broke his na­tion­al record in men's javelin by near­ly half a me­tre with a sec­ond placed fin­ish in the penul­ti­mate leg of the IAAF Di­a­mond League in Zurich, Switzer­land, yes­ter­day.

Wal­cott threw the spear 85.77m on his first at­tempt, which was 0.49m greater than the ef­fort in the Com­mon­wealth Games javelin qual­i­fy­ing event late last month. The 21-year-old, who took the world by storm in 2012 af­ter be­com­ing the youngest javelin gold medal­list at the Olympic Games and the first from the re­gion, was beat­en by num­ber-one ranked Di­a­mond League throw­er Thomas Rohler of Ger­many. Rohler al­so threw his best mark, 87.63m, on the first at­tempt.

Wal­cott was un­suc­cess­ful on his sec­ond throw but land­ed 81.11m, 77.38m and 83.99m on his sub­se­quent three at­tempts.

Fin­ish­ing third was Fin­land's Tero Pitka­ma­ki (85.12m).

T&T ath­lete, Richard Thomp­son, was al­so in ac­tion yes­ter­day in the men's 100m. He placed sev­enth in 10.26 sec­onds. Ja­maica's Ke­mar Bai­ley-Cole claimed a sea­son best 9.96 to win the race, while Michael Rodgers (USA) and James Dasaolu (Britain) fin­ished sec­ond and third in 10.05 and 10.06 sec­onds, re­spec­tive­ly. Thomp­son is one of on­ly two T&T ath­letes to have won a leg in the Di­a­mond League this year.

He opened his ac­count with a 10.02 fin­ish in the first leg in Oslo, which was the fastest time. Michelle-Lee Ahye won the women's 100m event in Lau­sanne (10.98) and Glas­gow (11.01).

Ja­maica then claimed the 100m dou­ble, with Veron­i­ca Camp­bell-Brown steal­ing the women's race in 11.04 sec­onds in a pho­to fin­ish edg­ing of Ivory Coast su­per­star Murielle Ahoure, who clocked the same time.

Fi­nal­ly for T&T, in the men's 400m hur­dles, Je­hue Gor­don, who is ranked fourth in the Di­a­mond League, clocked 48.91 sec­onds to fin­ish fifth. Cor­nel Fred­er­icks of South Africa won it in a sea­son-best 48.25.

World record hold­er and Olympic gold medal­ist David Rushi­da could on­ly fin­ish third in the 800 me­tres, be­hind Botswana's Ni­jel Amos and Ayan­leh Souleiman of Dji­bouti.

Amos, who beat Rushi­da to gold at the Com­mon­wealth Games last month, won the event in 1 minute, 43.77 sec­onds.

Souleiman fin­ished in 1:43.93, edg­ing out Rushi­da on the line by three hun­dredths of a sec­ond.

Else­where, world cham­pi­on LaShawn Mer­ritt com­fort­ably won the 400 with a time of 44.36, beat­ing fel­low Amer­i­can Gil Roberts in 44.96. Isaac Mak­wala of Botswana was third in 45.03.

In the women's events, Dawn Harp­er-Nel­son of the Unit­ed States beat Olympic cham­pi­on Sal­ly Pear­son and Eu­ro­pean cham­pi­on Tiffany Porter in the 100 hur­dle.

The Zurich leg of the Di­a­mond League will be fol­lowed by the fi­nal event in Brus­sels next Thurs­day.


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