Keshorn Walcott

Keshorn Walcott at the 2012 Olympic Games

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

Walcott attended the Youth Athletics World Championships 2009 in Brixen and the Junior World Championships in Athletics 2010 in Moncton, but could not each qualify for the finals. In a number of youth betting Advertise Caribbean he was against extremely successful and at the Pan American Games 2011 in Guadalajara, he finished seventh.

2012 Walcott was able to compete on a world scale. In Barcelona he won the title at the Junior World Championships and came a little later on also at the Olympic Games in London. There he increased the national javelin record of Trinidad and Tobago at 84.58 meters and was a complete surprise Olympic champion.

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