India’s Neeraj Chopra and Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem were left empty-handed at the men’s javelin final of the World Athletics Championships 2025 as Trinidad and Tobago’s Keshorn Walcott clinched gold on a rainy night in Tokyo.

The reigning Olympic champion, Nadeem, and world champion, Chopra, looked in poor form as they failed to cross the 85-metre (279-foot) mark at the Japan National Stadium on Thursday.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Walcott clinched his first global title since claiming Olympic gold as a teenager in 2012, with a throw of 88.16m (289ft).

The 32-year-old dominated the competition in a blustery breeze, producing the two longest throws of the evening to secure a first world championship medal to add to the 2012 gold and the bronze he won at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

In a good night

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