Trinidad And To­ba­go's Keshorn Wal­cott won the gold medal in the men's javelin throw fi­nal at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan on Thurs­day while Jereem Richards copped a sil­ver in the men's 400 me­tres.

Wal­cott, a two-time Olympic medal­list, won with a throw which mea­sured 88.16m, a sea­son's best, to beat An­der­son Pe­ters of Grena­da in­to sec­ond with 87.38m and Amer­i­cana Cur­tis Thomp­son was third with 86.67.

Richards, run­ning in lane two, clocked a new na­tion­al record of 43.72 sec­onds to place sec­ond be­hind Botswana's Bu­sang Ke­bi­nat­shipi, who won with a world-lead­ing time of 43.53 and ahead of Byapo Ndori, al­so of Botswana in third with 44.20.