Podium:
Gold medal: Keshorn Walcott (88.16m)
Silver medal: Anderson Peters (87.38m)
Bronze medal: Curtis Thompson (86.67m)
India in javelin throw final
Sachin Yadav - Fourth (86.27m)
Neeraj Chopra - Eighth (84.03m)
The big news after five attempts is that India's two-time Olympic medallist is out after five throws in the javelin throw final at the World Athletics Championships. He had a best of 84.03m in the second throw which kept him eighth in the standings.
He and Rumesh Pathirage of Sri Lanka are the ones who are exiting from this stage. Julius Yego is out retired. So there are five men vying for glory now
Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago keeps his gold medal place after the fourth throw. He improves and takes the mark even further to 88.16m!
After four throws, Paris Olympics gold medallist Arshad Nadeem and Poland's Dawid Wegner have been eliminated!
Jakub Vadlejch and Cameron McEntyre have been eliminated after three throws. Arshad Nadeem narrowly stays alive.
We will lose two more athletes after two more throws now. The order will be reversed now. So, Arshad Nadeem is next...
The 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott climbs to top of the javelin throw final standings with a throw of 87.83m!
The top-3 comprises of:
Walcott - 87.83m
Peters - 87.38m
Thompson - 81.36m
Curtis Thompson is ahead after the first throw of the javelin throw final. His 86.67m is better than Sachin Yadav's 86.27m. Neeraj Chopra, the defending champion, with 83.65m and sixth place
All the athletes have been introduced with Arshad Nadeem third in order of 12 athletes. Neeraj Chopra will be next to him in fourth. Rohit Yadav, the second Indian in the final, is ninth in order
Anderson Peters had topped the qualification standings with a mark of 89.53m from Group B. He was one of seven athletes to come through by meeting the 84.50m qualification mark. The others are Julian Weber, Julius Yego, Dawid Wegner, Arshad Nadeem, Neeraj Chopra, Curtis Thompson.
The others who came via the top-12 route are Jakub Vadlejch, Keshorn Walcott, Sachin Yadav, Cameron Mcentyre, Rumesh Pathirage
Julian Weber has th biggest throw of the season. The German athlete posted a mark of 91.51m in Zurich in August. Neeraj Chopra also breached that 90m mark this year, for the first time in his career, registering 90.23m at the Doha Diamond League in May. How will he do today in Tokyo, the venue of his Olympic triumph?
Jan Zelezny, the coach of Neeraj Chopra, holds the record for the biggest throw in javelin history. That 98.48m throw came back in May 1996. Can anyone go past that today?
A look at the 12 competitors who will be vying for glory in the men's javelin throw event at the World Athletics Championships