It was a great day for Caribbean athletics in Tokyo, Japan today.
Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott delivered another impressive performance to capture gold in the men’s javelin at the World Athletic Championships.
The 32-year-old came up trumps at the right time, with a season’s best effort of 88.16 metres to lead a 1-2 for the Caribbean, with Grenada’s two-time world champion Anderson Peters second with his throw of 87.38 metres.
In what proved to be a good day for Caribbean athletes, Dominica’s Olympic champion Thea LaFond claimed silver in the women’s triple jump, while Walcott’s teammate Jereem Richards set a new national record on his way to finishing second in the men’s 400 metres.
LaFond leapt a season’s best 14.89 metres to finish just behind Cuba’s Leyanis Perez Hernandez, a four-time world champion, who copped gold in a world leading jump of 14.94 metres. Yulimar Rojas of Venezuela (14.74m) placed third.
Richards added T&T’s second medal of the day when he clocked 43.72 seconds to cop silver behind Botswana’s Busang Collen Kebinatshipi, who ran a world leading time of 43.53 to become his country’s first-ever male world champion. (BA)
