The World Athletics Championships Oregon22 has now had two back-to-back javelin winners.
Twenty-four hours after Australia&rsquo;s Kelsey-Lee Barber successfully defended her title, Grenada&rsquo;s Anderson Peters won his second successive world gold medal in the event.
He did so with one of the greatest ever javelin series, producing three throws beyond the 90-metre line to hold off the challenge from Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra of India and Olympic silver medallist Jakub Vadlejch of the Czech Republic.
Vadlejch, second in the throwing order, took an early lead with 85.52m but Peters soon made his intentions known by opening with 90.21m. Germany&rsquo;s Julian Weber also got off to a strong start with 86.86m &ndash; a mark which remained his best of the night.
Peters and Vadlejch improved in round two, throwing 90.46m and 87.23m respectively. Chopra then found his groove in round three, landing a throw of 86.37m to move into fourth place. It spurred Vadlejch into producing his best mark of the night, 88.09m, just minutes later.
Chopra surpassed the Czech thrower in the next round, though, sending his javelin out to 88.13m to move into second place. But there was no catching Peters.
Vadlejch and Chopra were unable to get close to the Grenadian&rsquo;s leading mark in the last two rounds. By the time Peters took to the runway for the last time, he knew the title was his.
He didn&rsquo;t ease off, though. His javelin set sail in Eugene&rsquo;s evening sky and once again landed beyond the 90-metre line. The distance was confirmed at 90.54m &ndash; his best of the night.
Before this year, Peters&rsquo; best stood at 87.31m, set when winning the 2019 Pan American Games title. He has now surpassed that mark 16 times, seven of which have been beyond 90 metres.
Weber remained in fourth place, while Arshad Nadeem placed fifth with 86.16m, becoming the first athlete from Pakistan to achieve a top-eight finish at the World Championships. Finland&rsquo;s Lassi Etelatalo was sixth (82.70m). Moldova&rsquo;s Andrian Mardare and Finland&rsquo;s Oliver Helander also threw beyond 82 metres in seventh and eighth respectively.
Only one man, world record-holder Jan Zelezny, had previously won back-to-back world titles in the javelin. And while Peters was happy to join the legendary Czech thrower in that exclusive club, he had been hoping to throw a bit farther.
&ldquo;Defending a title is not an easy task; I had to push myself,&rdquo; said the 24-year-old. &ldquo;I was pretty happy that I managed to do it, although I was hoping for longer throws today. I just wanted to go out there and enjoy the event and to put on a show. This is my second gold, so I am very grateful for that.
&ldquo;Most throwers prefer the wind from behind but today we had a head wind, so it was a bit challenging but I pulled it off,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It was not really important to beat anyone in particular but it was good to go out there and have fun.&rdquo;
Chopra was relieved to emerge with a medal after feeling a niggle in warm-up.
&ldquo;I have to congratulate Peters and Jakub,&rdquo; said the Indian superstar. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t feel good during my first three throws. My warm-up was not good; I felt something in my groin during my throw but I think it is OK. Throwing in this wind was also a learning experience. But we have the World Championships again next year, so I will try to do better in Budapest.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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World Athletics Championships, Oregon 2022

Grenadian takes command of the the competition with three throws beyond 90 metres

Peters retains world javelin title with dominant series in Oregon

Mo Farah brought his track career to an end in the most fitting fashion, producing a dramatic 5000m victory at the Weltklasse Zurich on Thursday (24), the first of two 2017 IAAF Diamond League finals.
It was classic Farah and couldn&rsquo;t have been scripted better, a performance athletics fans around the world have come to expect from the two-time double Olympic and world champion, with the Briton emerging triumphant from a scrappy homestretch brawl that left a small pile of bodies on the ground in his wake.
Biding his time near the middle of the pack in the early stages, Farah worked his way to the front with about 1400 metres remaining, taking turns at the lead with Canada's Mohammed Ahmed. He positioned himself in front at the bell with Ethiopians Muktar Edris, the world champion, and Yomif Kejelcha shadowing him closely.
Paul Chelimo of the US joined the melee over the final half lap, turning the race into a four-man skirmish over the final 200 metres. Farah fought valiantly down the final straight, fighting off or charging back every move his opponents threw his way. Sprinting towards the line, eyeballs out and grimacing, he held firm, even in the blanket finish, to take the win in 13:06.05, just 0.04 ahead of Edris and Chelimo, who was later disqualified for obstruction.
"It was important to go out with a victory,&rdquo; Farah told the crowd, who were still on their feet clapping and paying tribute, several minutes after the race. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s every athlete&rsquo;s dream to go out this way.&rdquo;
&ldquo;But it was hard work,&rdquo; he added later. A job that was rewarded with his first Diamond Trophy.
It was the evening's longest race but only two were closer in the first IAAF Diamond League final contested under this year&rsquo;s new championship-style format which featured a prize pot of US$1.6 million with $50,000, along with a Diamond Trophy, going to the winners.
<h3>Photo finish wins for Pearson and Ujah</h3>
Farah&rsquo;s nail-biter was only outdone by a pair of contests that couldn&rsquo;t have been any closer.
Sally Pearson followed up her 100m hurdles World Championships victory with a narrow win over Sharika Nelvis after running down the American after the final barrier. Both were credited with 12.55 but the win, and a first Diamond Trophy, went to the Australian.
In the men's 100m, Chijindu Ujah of Great Britain held off Ben Youssef Meite&rsquo;s late race charge to end his breakout season with a Diamond Trophy. Both were timed at 9.97, with Ronnie Baker of the US finishing third in 10.01, 0.03 head of world champion Justin Gatlin.
<h3>Makwala dominates</h3>
Conversely, there was nothing close about Isaac Makwala&rsquo;s victory in the 400m. The Botswanan, who was sidelined from the event at the World Championships by illness, chiseled a clear lead by the midway point and entered the home straight alone en route to his 43.95 victory. His win was however made significantly easier by world silver medallist Stephen Gardiner&rsquo;s mishap at the start. At the gun, the slender Bahamian slipped from the blocks and fell flat on his chest, forced to watch his rivals run away while laying on the track.
Gil Roberts of the US was second in 44.54.
The 400m hurdles provided drama as well, but much of that came at the finish. As is rapidly becoming his trademark, world champion Karsten Warholm stormed to an early lead, holding it into the final bend. With fatigue setting in and the field chipping away at the gap behind him, the Norwegian stuttered badly as he approached the eighth hurdle, which provided an opening for his pursuers.
World leader Kyron McMaster took full advantage, catching Warholm and running past by the ninth hurdle and holding his ground through the line to end his breakout season as the Diamond Trophy winner. The British Virgin Islander won in 48.07 but Warholm fought on in the waning stages to clock 48.22 and chisel another 0.03 from his national record. Kaarien Hussein of Switzerland was third in 48.45, equaling his lifetime best.
<h3>Semenya extends unbeaten streak to 20</h3>
Meanwhile, Caster Semenya won her second straight 800m Diamond Trophy handily. Sixth at the bell, the South African worked her way to the front with just under 200m to go en route to a straightforward 1:55.84 win, about a second clear of Francine Niyonsaba and Kenyan Margaret Wambui, who clocked 1:56.71 and 1:56.87 respectively, to duplicate their finish at last year's Olympic Games. Semenya will end her 800m season with a 20-meeting win streak in her specialist event.
There was more Diamond Trophy success for South Africa in the men's long jump with Luvo Manyonga and Ruswahl Samaai finishing 1-2. Manyonga, the world champion, sealed the victory with an 8.49m leap in round four to extend his unbeaten streak to 10. Ruswahl was second with 8.31m with Jarrion Lawson of the US third at 8.12m.
The men&rsquo;s javelin throw didn&rsquo;t quite go according to the playbook, but Jakub Vadlejch's victory can't necessary be considered an upset. The Czech illustrated strong consistency to claim his second successive Diamond Trophy, controlling the competition from his 88.50m toss in the second round. Olympic champion Thomas Rohler came closest, reaching 86.59 in round three with Finn Tero Pitkamaki third just two centimetres behind the German.
World champion and season leader Johannes Vetter never quite found his rhythm, reaching a best of 86.15m for fourth.
The second 2017 IAAF Diamond League final will take place at the Van Damme Memorial in Brussels on Friday 1 September.
Bob Ramsak for the IAAF

Mo Farah brought his track career to an end in the most fitting fashion, producing a dramatic 5000m victory at the Weltklasse Zurich on Thursday (24), the first of two 2017 IAAF Diamond League finals.

Farah ends track career with dramatic 5000m victory in Zurich - IAAF Diamond League

According to javelin legend Jan Zelezny, the biggest talent in his training group is Jakub Vadlejch. And given that the squad includes the likes of 2013 world champion and 2012 European champion Vitezslav Vesley, that&rsquo;s quite some compliment.
But for most of his senior career, Vadlejch struggled to show his true abilities on the big stage. At five major senior championships between 2010 and 2015, he failed to make it beyond the qualifying round each time.
Despite breaking his PB three times in 2015, he once again missed out on the final at that year&rsquo;s IAAF World Championships. Nevertheless, Vadlejch saw that experience as a turning point. His final throw in the qualifying round landed beyond the automatic qualifying mark of 83 metres, but Vadlejch lost his balance close to the line and his effort was deemed a foul.
He knew, though, that had it not been for that mishap, he would have sailed into his first senior global championships final.
&ldquo;Last year finally showed me what my abilities are and I enjoyed every event,&rdquo; said Vadlejch.
<h3>Back to basics</h3>
It&rsquo;s easy to see why Zelezny is so full of praise for Vadlejch&rsquo;s natural talent.
Having started out in athletics at the age of 10, Vadlejch flourished under the leadership of Rudolf Cerny, training alongside Barbora Spotakova. Vadlejch was still a teenager while Spotakova was at her peak; watching his training partner win global titles and break world records was a huge inspiration for Vadlejch.
One year after Spotakova broke the world record, Vadlejch set a national U20 record of 81.95m, good enough for fifth on the world U20 all-time list at the time.
&ldquo;My throwing at that time was very raw,&rdquo; said Vadlejch. &ldquo;I did not understand what my legs and arms were doing.&rdquo;
Spotakova left Cerny&rsquo;s group in 2010 to begin training with Zelezny. Vadlejch &ndash; who earlier that year had improved his best to 84.47m&ndash; followed and began training alongside Vesely and Petr Frydrych.
Although he managed to throw beyond 80 metres most years, Vadlejch struggled with his technique and was unable to find consistency.
&ldquo;I had accumulated many mistakes and then my ankle problems started,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My technique just broke down. I had to return to my former throwing style.&rdquo;
His persistence eventually paid off and Vadlejch returned to PB territory in 2015. He threw 85.13m in Kawasaki at the start of the year and then improved to 85.15m in Lausanne in July before throwing a lifetime best of 86.21m two weeks later in Karlstad. He was consistent, too, throwing beyond 80 metres in 14 of his 18 competitions that year.
Vadlejch was finally living up to the promise he had shown since his teenage years.
<h3>Breakthrough in 2016</h3>
Vadlejch continued his momentum into the Olympic year.
As was the case in 2015, he threw a PB in Kawasaki in his third competition of the season. His 86.76m effort was a world-leading mark at the time, but he was beaten in his first four IAAF Diamond League appearances of the year.
His string of misfortune at major events finally came to an end in July when he reached the final at the European Championships. Although he finished ninth in Amsterdam, he soon rebounded. He triumphed at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in London two weeks later and then threw a lifetime best of 87.20m in Kolin at the start of August in his final competition before heading to the Olympic Games in Rio.
Vadlejch hit an automatic qualifying mark of 83.27m with his last throw to make it through to his first senior global championships final. In a highly competitive contest, Vadlejch finished eighth with 82.42m, within three metres of a medal-winning distance.
Although he was disappointed with his performance at the Games, Vadlejch didn&rsquo;t rest on his laurels for the remainder of the season. He set a PB of 88.02m at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris and then wrapped up the Diamond Race by taking victory in Zurich, both times beating Olympic champion Thomas Rohler.
Vadlejch knows there is more to come. Having broken significant mental and physical barriers in recent years, the 26-year-old is looking forward to big throws and challenging for major medals over the next few years.
&ldquo;I hope I haven&rsquo;t reached the peak throwing age yet,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;They say it comes sometime around 30. I hope I will get close to my limit sometime in the future.&rdquo;
Adapted from the &lsquo;Focus on Athletes&rsquo; biography prepared by Zuzana Trojakova

According to javelin legend Jan Zelezny, the biggest talent in his training group is Jakub Vadlejch. And given that the squad includes the likes of 2013 world champion and 2012 European champion Vitezslav Vesley, that’s quite some compliment.

Living up to early promise, Vadlejch is now a contender

Laura Muir dominated a classy field with a 3:55.22 1500m victory at the Meeting de Paris, the 12th stop of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League series, on Saturday (27).
The 23-year-old from Great Britain shattered her own national record with a run that propelled her to 13th on the world all-time list with her world-leading performance.
After being led through the first 800m in 2:09, Muir took to the front when second pacer Judy Kiyeng dropped out at 1000 metres. At that stage she led world indoor champion Sifan Hassan by five metres, with Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon following just behind.
It takes much to hold off that pair, and Muir, who was seventh in the final in Rio, showed she had the goods with a determined 59.99 last lap. It was the second time this season Muir broke the British record, having beaten Kelly Holmes&rsquo; mark for the first time at the IAAF Diamond League fixture in London in July.
&ldquo;I couldn't believe the time, especially since I didn't do one track session since Rio,&rdquo; said an elated Muir.
&ldquo;I just went with the pacemaker and I knew I had to dig in and hold on during the third lap. I'll be in Zurich next week to finish my season.&rdquo;
The pace and the heat took their toll on Hassan; Kipyegon passed her in the home straight to take second in 3:56.72. Hassan held on for a season&rsquo;s best of 3:57.13. Four other women, including Olympic bronze medallist Jenny Simpson of the US, came home within four minutes in what transpired as the fastest 1500m contest of 2016.
Muir is just eight points shy of Diamond Race leader Kipyegon with just Thursday&rsquo;s race in Zurich left to run.
In the women&rsquo;s 400m, Natasha Hastings&rsquo; strong finish got her the win in 50.06. Stephenie Ann McPherson had led for much of the race, yet her legs began to tie up in the closing thirty yards. Hastings&rsquo; form never wavered, and she pulled through for her first IAAF Diamond League win of the season.
&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t easy coming here after Rio so I&rsquo;m pretty pleased with the time,&rdquo; said a buoyant Hastings, who moved to third in the Diamond Race rankings.
McPherson finished second in 50.33 ahead of her Jamaican teammate Christine Day, third in 50.75. McPherson now tops the overall rankings, just a point ahead of Olympic champion Shaunae Miller, who did not run tonight.
<h3>Lavillenie enjoys home comforts</h3>
French favourite Renaud Lavillenie reveled in front of his home crowd, winning the men&rsquo;s pole vault despite a few scares. After first-time clearances at 5.61m and 5.71m, the Olympic silver medallist needed three efforts to clear 5.81m &ndash; a height that Sam Kendricks of the US had popped over on his first try.
That left just those two men standing with the bar at 5.87m. The atmosphere on the far side of the stadium was bubbling, and while it propelled Lavillenie to a second-time clearance, Kendricks could not join him. The Frenchman then went over 5.93m, though he once again found a 6.00m clearance elusive this season.
&ldquo;The audience was amazing, they helped me to give everything,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The competition was really hard tonight. But I managed to dig in and I found the power to achieve a strong performance. I'm so happy with this victory.&rdquo;
It was his fourth IAAF Diamond League win of 2016, and secured the 29-year-old&rsquo;s seventh straight Diamond Race trophy.
Spain&rsquo;s Ruth Beitia matched the height that won her Olympic gold in Rio last week to win the women&rsquo;s high jump. She enjoyed first-time clearances all the way to 1.98m, which would prove her best mark as she was unable to manage 2.02m.
&ldquo;This is a dream after the European Championships and the Olympics,&rdquo; the 37-year-old said, her win giving her a commanding lead in the Diamond Race with just one competition remaining. &ldquo;I have one more Diamond League event in Zurich and then it will be holidays and rest. But we'll see Ruth again next year.&rdquo;
St Lucia&rsquo;s Levern Spencer cleared a season&rsquo;s best of 1.96m to take second, a performance that leaves her second overall in the Diamond Race ahead of Italy&rsquo;s Alessia Trost, who was third with a best of 1.93m.
<h3>Vadlejch keeps diamond race alive in javelin</h3>
Czech javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch launched a lifetime best of 88.02m in the javelin to record his second IAAF Diamond League win of the season. The result also means he stays close to Thomas Rohler in the overall season standings, the Olympic champion only able to produce an 84.16m effort for third.
Rohler&rsquo;s German teammate Julian Weber was second with 87.39m, also in the third round, though he will not figure in the race for the diamond at the season-ender in Zurich.
Yet for Vadlejch the hunt is well and truly on. His win leaves him just four points behind Rohler, a gap that can be closed with double points available in Thursday night&rsquo;s decider.
In the men&rsquo;s triple jump, Alexis Copello led after a third-round 16.90m, though each of his efforts had been way back on the board. Those crucial centimetres would ultimately cost the Cuban, who watched as USA's Chris Carter went out to 16.92m to wrestle the lead at half way.
Though Copello posted another three legal jumps to complete a consistent series &ndash; all his marks falling within a 19-centimetre range &ndash; he was unable to better Carter&rsquo;s effort. His first IAAF Diamond League win of the season moves him into third behind Copello. Olympic champion Christian Taylor is the overall leader but was not present tonight.
Thomas Byrne for the IAAF

Laura Muir dominated a classy field with a 3:55.22 1500m victory at the Meeting de Paris, the 12th stop of the 2016 IAAF Diamond League series, on Saturday (27).

Muir clocks world-leading 1500m in Paris – IAAF Diamond League

World long jump champion Tianna Bartoletta completed a 100m-long jump double for the second straight year at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, an IAAF World Challenge meeting, in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Sunday (8).
Bartoletta, working with a new approach point in the long jump, leapt 6.61m on her third attempt to win by six centimetres over Australia's Brooke Stratton, and then returned to the track about two hours later to triumph in the 100m, clocking 11.23 into a stiff -1.7m/s breeze.
She was concise when describing her performance in the long jump: "Horrible."
In the US athlete's own defence, she explained that her coach had instructed her to shorten her approach the night before the competition. Not having practised from that distance, she said she came up 50 or so centimetres short of the board on each jump.
Still, she looked at the positive: "I learned a lot about myself. I learned why I became a champion again, because I don't give up, even when it's not perfect conditions."
In the 100m, she was beaten out of the blocks, and it wasn't until the last 30 metres that she finally caught and then passed Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, who finished second in 11.30.
"Slow, you can say it was slow," said Bartoletta, when asked about her start. "You know what they say, it's not how you start, it's how you finish. And my start has been more powerful, so it looks slower, but my velocity is higher, so I think that's what carries me through.
"A lot of people panic when they're behind like that, and I really did a good job of remaining patient, and staying in my lane. What I could have done better was not lean so early, but that was just mental fatigue on my part."
And the time of 11.23? "I'm going to throw out the time. The headwind was a little strong, I felt it running, it was like resistance training. I'm not really worried about that, I'm more pleased with how I felt today."
After completing the double in Kawasaki last year, Bartoletta went on to strike long jump gold in the Chinese capital and hopes she can repeat that at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, while adding in the 100m.
<h3>Kawasaki comfort zone</h3>
"I'm comfortable here; it's a good place for me to kind of know where I'm at as an athlete going into the season," said Bartoletta. "We hope to see the same thing (in Rio) but this meet is perfect, because my Olympic Trials schedule is almost just like this schedule."
Czech Republic's Jakub Vadlejch retained his Kawasaki title in the men's javelin with a world-leading and personal best throw of 86.76m.
The 25-year-old Vadlejch, who has been recognised as a talent in his event since his junior days but failed to make the final at his past five major championships including last summer&rsquo;s World Championships, exceeded the career best of 86.21m he threw last summer in Karlstad.
He took the lead in the first round with 85.07m, which would have sufficed for victory, before throwing his winning effort in the fifth round.
Japan's Ryohei Arai, ninth in Beijing, finished second with a toss of 84.41m and moved up to second on the 2016 world list at this early stage in the season. He was followed by Chinese Taipei's Huang Shih-Feng, who added more than a metre to his previous national record set in 2013 when he finished third with 83.32m. The top five throwers all surpassed 83 metres.
While happy with his personal best, Vallejch was not totally satisfied. "In my last competition in South Africa, I felt much, much better technically," he said. "I had there five throws over 83."
Canadian pole vaulter Shawn Barber, the other gold medallist from the 2015 World Championships in action at Todoroki Stadium, cleared 5.62m on his first attempt, which was good enough for the victory.
"The winds were crazy out there," said Barber. "Feeling these winds, I'm happy with the height I had today. It would have been nice to go higher. I had a lot of height on the bars I didn't make. I just couldn't figure it all out there at the end."
Barber was pushed by the Japanese pair of Daicihi Sawano and Seito Yamamoto, who both cleared the same height before the trio all brought the bar down three times at 5.70m.
However, Sawano needed two attempts to make 5.62m while Yamamoto needed three and they finished second and third respectively.
"It was good, that's why we come to these meets," he said. "You want to see what the people are going to be doing at the Olympics in a couple of months. I know a good deal of these people are going to be there, so it's prep for that."
Barber joined the elite six-metre club at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno in January. On the road to Rio, which includes two meetings in China before heading to Europe, he expects to clear that height again.
"I think I'll find six metres outdoors very soon, given the right conditions and atmosphere," he added.
<h3>Nozawa delights the home crowd</h3>
The hosts came out with a victory when Keisuke Nozawa put on a late surge for an impressive win in the men's 400m hurdles. His time of 48.67 not only topped the Olympic qualifying standard of 49.40 but also the more stringent 48.74 set by the Japanese Athletic Federation.
Chinese athletes had 1-2 finishes in three events.
World silver medalist Zhang Guowei, fresh off a second-place finish at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Doha on Friday night, finished ahead of compatriot Wang Yu on fewer misses after both cleared 2.33m in the men's high jump.
In the men's long jump, Huang Changzhou leaped 7.95m to finish seven centimetres ahead of Wang Jianan while Xie Wenjun won the 110m hurdles in 13.36, with Zhang Honglin second in 13.59.
Canada's Pan American Games champion Elizabeth Gleadle denied Japan's Yuki Ebihara a victory in the women's javelin, hurling the spear 62.59m on her final attempt. Ebihara had led throughout after recording 62.13m on her first throw.
Behind the leading pair, world youth champion Haruka Kitaguchi threw a national U20 record of 61.38m, the best mark by an U20 athlete in the world this year, which also establishes her as a potential medal contender at the IAAF World U20 Championships Bydgoszcz 2016 in July. &nbsp;&nbsp;
Ethiopia's Tigat Assefa Tessema set a meeting record in the women's 800m with a winning time of 2:00.66 while double world silver medallist Justin Gatlin was a convincing winner of the 100m in 10.02, running into a -0.4m/s headwind.
Ken Marantz for the IAAF

World long jump champion Tianna Bartoletta completed a 100m-long jump double for the second straight year at the Seiko Golden Grand Prix, an IAAF World Challenge meeting, in the Japanese city of Kawasaki on Sunday (8).

Bartoletta doubles again, Vadlejch throws world-leading javelin mark in Kawasaki 

Asian champion Dilshod Nazarov notched up his second successive IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge victory of the season, taking a last-gasp win at the Karlstad Grand Prix on Wednesday (22).Four days after winning in Zhukovskiy, the 33-year-old from Tajikistan was under pressure throughout after European under-23 champion Nick Miller threw 77.55m in the opening round to add one centimetre to the British record set more than 31 years ago.Nazarov moved from third to second in round two with 76.83m and marginally improved to 76.89m in the penultimate round, but 22-year-old Miller still held the lead.Then, with his final throw of the competition, Nazarov sent his hammer flying out to 77.95m, 40 centimetres beyond Miller&rsquo;s leading mark. The Briton tried to respond, but his final effort was a foul.Italian veteran Marco Lingua was third with 76.76m, 28 centimetres ahead of Marcel Lomnicky of the Slovak Republic.With his win in Karlstad &ndash; his third victory in the past four years in the Swedish city &ndash; Nazarov has consolidated his second-place position in the overall challenge standings, nine points adrift of world champion Pawel Fajdek and one point ahead of Olympic champion Krisztian Pars.Most of the other top performances in Karlstad came in the field events.Czech champion Jakub Vadlejch added more than a metre to his PB in the javelin, winning with 86.21m. Sweden&rsquo;s Kim Amb, competing for the first time since May, finished second with a season&rsquo;s best of 82.04m.On a good night for Swedish jumpers, Erika Kinsey came close to clearing a lifetime best of 1.98m in the high jump but had to settle for a 1.94m victory. Compatriot Erica Jarder was similarly convincing in winning the long jump, leaping a wind-assisted 6.66m in the first round, while European indoor bronze medallist Andreas Otterling won the men&rsquo;s event with a wind-assisted 8.13m.On the track, South African record-holder Akani Simbine comfortably achieved a sprints double, winning the 100m in 10.09 and the 200m in 20.64, both times with illegal tailwinds. USA&rsquo;s Alexandria Anderson won the women&rsquo;s 100m in 11.28.In a close 800m race, USA&rsquo;s Duane Solomon just about managed to hold off world junior bronze medallist Andreas Almgren, winning in 1:45.99 to the young Swede&rsquo;s 1:46.04.Jon Mulkeen for the IAAF

Asian champion Dilshod Nazarov notched up his second successive IAAF Hammer Throw Challenge victory of the season, taking a last-gasp win at the Karlstad Grand Prix on Wednesday (22).