(1993-04-02) 2 April 1993 (age 31) Toco, Trinidad and Tobago
Height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight
90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Country
Trinidad and Tobago
Sport
Track and field
Event
Javelin throw
Achievements and titles
Personal bests
NR 90.16 m (2015)
Medal record
Olympic Games
2012 London
Javelin throw
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Javelin throw
Commonwealth Games
2014 Glasgow
Javelin throw
Pan American Games
2015 Toronto
Javelin throw
2019 Lima
Javelin throw
Continental Cup
2014 Marrakech
Javelin throw
World Junior Championships
2012 Barcelona
Javelin throw
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Keshorn "Keshie" Walcott, ORTT (born 2 April 1993) is a Trinbagonian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is an Olympic champion, having won gold in 2012. He is the first Caribbean male athlete, as well as the first of African descent, to win the gold medal in a throwing event in the history of the Olympics.[1] He is also the holder of the North, Central American and Caribbean junior record.
Walcott is the youngest Olympic gold medallist in the men's javelin (19 years 131 days), and the first athlete in any track and field event to win World Junior and Olympic titles in an individual event the same year.[2]
^Athlete Profile - Keshorn Walcott; prepared 24 April 2013, by Kwame Laurence for the IAAF "Focus on athletes" project; accessed 29 March 2014.
^Minshull, Phil (29 November 2012). "Olympic Champion Keshorn Walcott Faces the Press". IAAF General News. IAAF online press release. Retrieved 29 March 2014.
Keshorn "Keshie" Walcott, ORTT (born 2 April 1993) is a Trinbagonian track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is an Olympic champion...
won by Rodney Wilkes in 1948. Most recently, a gold medal was won by KeshornWalcott in the men's javelin throw in 2012. Ato Boldon has won the most Olympic...
Andrus Värnik, Estonia Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvia Neeraj Chopra, India KeshornWalcott, Trinidad and Tobago John Whittemore, United States, world's oldest...
World Champion Julius Yego of Kenya and defending Olympic Champion KeshornWalcott of Trinidad and Tobago overtook him for the medal positions. Unable...
thrower KeshornWalcott, who won the nation's first ever gold after nearly four decades. Looking to defend his title in Rio de Janeiro, Walcott was selected...
the athletes who competed in the track and field. Javelin thrower KeshornWalcott became the first Trinidadian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal since...
Although his U20 record surpassed that of defending Olympic champion KeshornWalcott, Chopra failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the cut-off...
Slovenia 79.36 Koji Murofushi Japan 78.71 Javelin throw details [d] KeshornWalcott Trinidad and Tobago 84.58 Antti Ruuskanen Finland 84.12 Vítězslav...
the 2014 Commonwealth Games, beating the reigning Olympic champion, KeshornWalcott, with a distance of 83.87 m. Yego was the first Kenyan athlete to win...
Julian Weber Germany 82.62 m 5 5 Andrian Mardare Moldova 81.67 m 4 6 KeshornWalcott Trinidad and Tobago 81.27 m 3 7 Genki Dean Japan 79.44 m 2 8 Curtis...
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