Walcott outshines Chopra, Nadeem to win javelin gold at Worlds – updates

That’s it from our coverage of the men’s javelin final at the World Athletics Championships 2025 in Tokyo.

The night belonged to the Americas as Keshorn Walcott rolled back the years to bag his first Worlds gold, followed by fellow Caribbean native Anderson Peters of Grenada. Curtis Thompson of the United States finished third on a rainy and breezy night at the Japan National Stadium.

There were no final-round finishes, but plenty of disappointment for India’s Neeraj Chopra and Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan, both of whom could not cross the 85-metre (279-foot) mark.

Sachin Yadav of India and Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka shone bright with their respective fourth and seventh-place finishes.

There’s plenty more live sport to come from our team, including football and cricket.

Thanks for joining me, Hafsa Adil, for our live coverage of the javelin finals.

The next set of finals will be in the men’s and women’s 400-metre races.

We’ll keep you abreast of all the biggest results from the championships as they head towards their conclusion on Sunday.

What we’ve all been waiting for ❤️

The @WATokyo25 timetable is here 🫨

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— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) September 11, 2025

We will continue our coverage of the UEFA Champions League tonight, with Newcastle United hosting Barcelona.

Kevin Hand and Adam Hancock will bring you all the action and talking points from 16:00 GMT for the 19:00 GMT kickoff at St James’s Park.

Be sure to log on in about three hours’ time to catch all the live build-up and comprehensive text and photo commentary.

Read our wrap of the final here.

BACK ON TOP 🤩

🇹🇹’s Keshorn Walcott launches 88.16m to claim his first ever world title in the javelin at #WorldAthleticsChamps 🚀

It’s his first global title since Olympic gold in 2012 😤#WorldAthleticsChamps pic.twitter.com/JNPdcJ4thi

— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) September 18, 2025

With Walcott (Trinidad and Tobago), Peters (Grenada) and Thompson (USA) finishing on the podium, it’s a win for the Americas in a final that was hyped to be a South Asian affair.

That’s how it goes sometimes.

The Indian athlete could not repeat his performance from earlier in the year, when he landed a 90.23-metre (296.03 feet) throw at the Doha Diamond League on May 16.

While Nadeem wasn’t able to finish amongst the top athletes today, he did manage to blow away the competition at the Paris Olympics  2024, where he also broke the Olympic record with a throw of 92.97 metres on August 8, 2024.

While he was not able to finish on the podium, the Indian will be delighted with his performance.

The winner, Walcott, will bag $70,000, while Peters will be awarded $35,000, and Thompson, the third-placed finisher, will earn $22,000.

While previous global and regional athletics events gave us plenty of feel-good Chopra-Nadeem moments, the two South Asian athletes mostly kept out of each other’s way at this year’s World Athletics.

While the Trinidadian has won an Olympic gold in the past – at London 2012 – today’s win brings him a first World Athletics Championships gold.

In fact, the 32-year-old had never won a medal at the Worlds before tonight.

Surely, he won’t mind the wait.

The man from Trinidad and Tobago has not improved on his best throw tonight, but still takes gold in Tokyo.

He had the crowd’s support, as well as Peters’s, as he ran in on a wet and slippery runway.

Not a lot of emotion on show from Walcott as the Caribbean islanders finish first and second.

The man from Grenada, who has previously won two world championships, stays in second place.

The American has confirmed a bronze medal in difficult conditions.

The lesser-known Indian has done well but fails to move up with a throw of 80.95m.

He’s out of contention for the medals with a throw of 84.67m.

Far from ideal conditions for the javelin throwers.

• Walcott
• Peters
• Thompson
• Yadav
• Weber