Keshorn Walcott

Keshorn Walcott
Keshorn Walcott at the 2012 Olympics
nation	Trinidad and Tobago
birthday	April 2, 1993
place of birth	Toco , Trinidad
size	183 cm
Weight	90 kg
Career
discipline	Javelin throw
Best performance	90.16 m
Trainer	Ishmael Mastrapa
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games gold 2012 London 84.58 m bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro 85.38 m  Commonwealth Games silver 2014 Glasgow 82.67 m  Pan American Games gold 2015 Toronto 83.27 m silver 2019 Lima 83.55 m  Junior World Championships gold 2012 Barcelona 78.64 m
last change: September 1st, 2019

Keshorn Walcott (born April 2, 1993 in Toco , Trinidad ) is a track and field athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who was 2012 Olympic champion in the javelin .

Walcott took part in the World Athletics Championships 2009 in Bressanone and the 2010 World Athletics Championships in Moncton, but could not qualify for the final. At various junior competitions in the Caribbean, however, he was extremely successful and at the Pan American Games 2011 in Guadalajara, he took seventh place.

In 2012, Walcott also became competitive on a world scale. In Barcelona he secured the title at the Junior World Championships and a little later also entered the Olympic Games in London . There he increased the national javelin record of Trinidad and Tobago to 84.58 m and surprisingly became an Olympic champion. At the age of nineteen he was both the youngest ever Olympic champion in javelin throw and the first from a non-European country since Cy Young in 1952.

At both the 2013 World Athletics Championships in Moscow and the 2015 World Athletics Championships in Beijing, he missed qualifying for the final. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he finished second behind Julius Yego . On July 9, 2015, it exceeded the 90-meter mark for the first time in Lausanne with a width of 90.16 m. Shortly thereafter, he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games in Toronto . At the World Championships in Beijing , however, he did not get more than 76.83 m in qualifying and thus clearly missed the final.

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, he won the bronze medal with 85.38 m behind the German Thomas Röhler (90.30 m) and the Kenyan Julius Yego (88.24 m).

In 2017 he finished seventh at the World Championships in London with 84.48 m. At the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019 , he won the silver medal behind Anderson Peters with 83.55 m .

Web links

Commons : Keshorn Walcott  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Keshorn Walcott in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Walcott making waves for Trinidad and Tobago . Olympic.org, July 8, 2016 (portrait of Keshorn Walcott)