T&T's Olympic cham­pi­on Keshorn Wal­cott yes­ter­day won gold with a sea­son-best 84.81 me­tres-throw in the men's javelin at the Vir­rat's 90th an­niver­sary meet in Fin­land.

The throw qual­i­fied the two-time Olympic medal­list for this year's IAAF World Cham­pi­onship (Sep­tem­ber 28-Oc­to­ber 6) in Do­ha, Qatar af­ter sur­pass­ing the qual­i­fy­ing stan­dard of 83m. This fol­lowed up Wal­cott's gold-medal win with 81.68m in Kuor­tane, Fin­land, last week.

The na­tion­al record-hold­er will re­turn to ac­tion on June 11 in Turku, Fin­land.

Mean­while, in Rome, Italy, T&T sprint­er Jereem "The Dream" Richards crossed sixth in the men's 200m in a time of 20.52 sec­onds at the Gold­en Gala Pietro Men­nea, the fourth stop of the IAAF Di­a­mond League meet­ing.

Win­ning the dash was Amer­i­can Michael Nor­man, just ahead of his coun­try­man Noah Lyles. Nor­man timed his dip well to take the vic­to­ry in a life­time best of 19.70, mov­ing him to 12th on the world all-time list.

Lyles was just a whisker be­hind with 19.72 – which, in­ci­den­tal­ly, was Men­nea’s life­time best. Both men were well in­side the pre­vi­ous meet­ing record of 19.86.

Alex Quinonez was a dis­tant third in 20.17, while world cham­pi­on Ramil Guliyev fin­ished just ahead of Ital­ian hope Fil­ip­po Tor­tu, 20.35 to 20.36.