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Lon­don 2012 Olympic gold medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott is in the fi­nal of the men’s javelin event at the World Ath­let­ics Cham­pi­onships in Tokyo, Japan. Wal­cott did not hit the au­to­mat­ic stan­dard of 84.50 me­tres but pro­duced a dis­tance of 83.93 me­tres to land in­side the top 12 per­for­mances from the two qual­i­fi­ca­tion groups.

Wal­cott was ninth over­all and fifth in group A, which was topped by Ger­man Julius We­ber (87.21m), with Poland’s Daw­id Weg­n­er next (85.67) and Olympic cham­pi­on Neer­aj Chopra of In­dia (84.85) all able to sur­pass the au­to­mat­ic qual­i­fi­ca­tion mark. Czech Re­pub­lic’s Jakub Vadle­jch pro­duced a sea­son’s best throw of 84.11 to slip in­to the fi­nal just ahead of Wal­cott. Sachin Ya­dav of In­dia was the 6th ath­lete to ad­vance from group A af­ter land­ing his spear 83.67 me­tres.

T&T sprint­er Leah Bertrand did not ad­vance be­yond the pre­lim­i­nary round of the women’s 200m this morn­ing.