Javelin throw­er Keshorn Wal­cott may have set three new records for 2015, but the reign­ing Olympic cham­pi­on was elim­i­nat­ed from the event at the World Cham­pi­onships here yes­ter­day, af­ter plac­ing 26th out of 33 com­peti­tors.The Trinida­di­an ath­lete man­aged on­ly two le­gal throws of 75.16 me­tres with his best ef­fort of 76.83.

Wal­cott en­tered the cham­pi­onships as one of the pre-event favourites with a per­son­al and sea­son best of 90.16m but has been bat­tling an an­kle in­jury."I just went out there, tried to per­form well but it was just a bad com­pe­ti­tion," he said. "No oth­er ex­pla­na­tion, just a bad com­pe­ti­tion. Of course, I ex­pect­ed bet­ter throws but I do not know what was go­ing on."

Wal­cott said his tech­nique was off. "The dis­tances were way off and you can see the re­sults. There was a lack of com­pe­ti­tion for me since my an­kle in­jury but my an­kle held up good to­day and I am thank­ing God for that. But I would have to say it was a bad com­pe­ti­tion be­cause I was re­al­ly out of it," a down­cast Wal­cott said.

In 2013 , Wal­cott al­so failed to progress at the World Cham­pi­onships in Moscow and a re­flec­tive Wal­cott re­called: "I guess you can say that the World Cham­pi­onships is not my friend. Hope­ful­ly I can for­get about it and moved on, learn what­ev­er I can and see the big­ger pic­ture. Next year is a brand new year, so hope­ful­ly I can do bet­ter in the ma­jor cham­pi­onships."

As to the trou­ble­some an­kle, Wal­cott re­vealed thant it was not com­plete­ly healed. "So I just have to go back and con­tin­ue work­ing on it be­cause I do not want to start back train­ing with any prob­lems. I think I am go­ing to call the sea­son there, and con­tin­ue work­ing on my an­kle."

Wal­cott said he was sor­ry for dis­ap­point­ing his fans. "I know most peo­ple will be dis­ap­point­ed but this is how it is in sport. We have our ups and downs. I ex­pect­ed bet­ter be­cause this is what I trained for and al­though you know some­times it feels like a wast­ed year, you have to take what it is and be­lieve. Fail­ure is a part of it. You need to fail in or­der to suc­ceed some­times as it gives you some­thing to keep push­ing for­ward," stat­ed Wal­cott

Wal­cott, 22, is op­ti­mistic about his fu­ture. "As for next year, I know I can throw long dis­tances but I need to stay healthy. That is my ma­jor prob­lem so that is go­ing to be my main fo­cus for the rest of 2015."An­oth­er ath­lete to ex­it the stage was Sparkle Mck­night whose run in the 400 me­tres hur­dle ame to a fight­ing end when she placed 5th in her heat.

"It was rough but I am grate­ful to hav­ing made it past the first round. My first 250m was good but my last 150m was not all that good. I think it was the tense­ness and the com­pe­ti­tion that I had in the race. I made it get the bet­ter of me but it was an over­all good per­for­mance for me," McK­night said.