With massive heave Yego is now 3rd best all time

Julius Yego came into this event as the world leader in the Javelin. But there was an air of doubt about whether he could even win a medal. He has been inconsistent. In his last contest before the world championships, he managed a throw of only 81.79m.

However Yego came through when it mattered. With a heave of 92.72m, Yego became the first Kenyan ever to win a field event at the world championships. He broke his own Africa record. It was also the best throw in the world since 2001. Yego is now third in the all time list of Javelin throwers behind behind world record-holder Jan Zelezny (98.48m) and Finland’s Aki Parviainen (93.09m). Yego’s toss was also a new Commonwealth record. That record was previously held by Steve Backley of England

Yego was so dominant that even his last throw was well beyond 90m but was ruled a foul because he stepped on the line.

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Results

POS	BIB	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	MARK	DETAIL	Attempt 1	Attempt 2	Attempt 3	Attempt 4	Attempt 5	Attempt 6
1	706	Julius Yego	KEN	92.72	WL	X	82.42	92.72	–	–	X
2	415	Ihab Abdelrahman El Sayed	EGY	88.99	SB	86.07	88.99	X	X	X	X
3	482	Tero Pitkämäki	FIN	87.64		83.45	85.03	85.08	87.64	84.49	87.34
4	565	Thomas Röhler	GER	87.41		86.68	86.03	86.77	87.18	84.00	87.41
5	483	Antti Ruuskanen	FIN	87.12		76.24	81.29	87.12	80.63	84.30	X
6	556	Andreas Hofmann	GER	86.01		79.38	77.33	84.85	82.43	X	86.01
7	571	Johannes Vetter	GER	83.79		83.79	81.98	80.28	X	79.43	X
8	400	Vítezslav Veselý	CZE	83.13		78.38	X	83.13	81.45	82.98	X
9	646	Ryohei Arai	JPN	83.07		80.81	83.07	X
10	170	Braian Toledo	ARG	80.27		78.27	78.30	80.27
11	918	Kim Amb	SWE	78.51		77.38	75.77	78.51
12	455	Risto Mätas	EST	76.79		75.79	70.10	76.79