Trinidad and To­ba­go’s two-time Olympic medal­list Keshorn Wal­cott end­ed his run of five ma­jor meets with­out a medal when he copped the bronze medal at the Wan­da Di­a­mond League in Brus­sels, Bel­gium on Sat­ur­day.

This was af­ter the 33-year-old Wal­cott, a for­mer Olympic gold and bronze medal javelin throw win­ner, had a best at­tempt of 83.99 m, a sea­son best on his first of six at­tempts in the sev­en-man fi­nal.

Wal­cott al­so had ef­forts of 79.20m, 83.58m, 80.09m, 82.04m and 78.02m.

Back in May, Wal­cott, who has a per­son­al best of 90.16m, start­ed the Di­a­mond League sea­son with a bronze medal in Mo­roc­co but then missed out on get­ting among the medals in his next four Di­a­mond League ap­pear­ances in Rome (fourth), Qatar (sev­enth), Switzer­land (fourth) and Zurich (fourth).

Sri Lankan Rumesh Tha­ranga Pathi­rage con­tin­ued his dom­i­nance of the event with a win­ning throw of 89.04 m with his third at­tempt for his fifth win of the sea­son af­ter plac­ing sec­ond in his open­ing event back in May.

The ef­fort by the 23-year-old Pathi­rage beat Poland’s Daw­id Weg­n­er in­to the sec­ond spot af­ter the Eu­ro­pean land­ed a best ef­fort of 87.47m, al­so with his third at­tempt.

Grena­da’s An­der­son Pe­ters was fourth with a best ef­fort of 83.70m with his fourth and fi­nal at­tempt, fol­lowed by Kenya’s Julius Yego (76.79m), Bel­gium’s Tim­o­thy Her­man (71.79m), and USA’s Cur­tis Thomp­son (69.52m).

Last week at the Zurich Di­a­mond League on Au­gust 28, Wal­cott placed fourth with an 83.02m throw, fin­ish­ing be­hind Pathi­rage (92.07m), Pe­ters (86.93), and Weg­n­er (85.16).

Dur­ing the 2026 sea­son, Wal­cott al­so missed out on medals at both the Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land, and the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games in the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

The win­ner of the gold medal at last year’s World Cham­pi­onships, Wal­cott had a best ef­fort of 82.55m for the sixth spot at the re­cent Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow and failed to de­fend his CAC Games javelin ti­tle, sur­pris­ing­ly miss­ing out on the podi­um with a fourth-place fin­ish in the nine-man fi­nal with a best ef­fort of 80.92m in San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia Sports yes­ter­day, Ser­rette ap­plaud­ed Wal­cott for his de­ter­mi­na­tion on the world stage and was pleased to see him end the sea­son on a high with a podi­um fin­ish. He said that the event is a very tough one, where he con­tin­ues to be among the best con­tenders in the world.

Ser­rette said, “Javelin is a very un­pre­dictable event, and you nev­er know on the day what would hap­pen. I didn’t think any­body was think­ing that he would have won the gold medal in the World Cham­pi­onships last year, sim­i­lar­ly in 2012 at the Lon­don Olympics. So, you re­al­ly can­not say much about his per­for­mances, but he con­tin­ues to be con­sis­tent, and since it’s done with the dis­tances in the 83s and 84s, we al­so recog­nise the Sri Lankan, the Pak­istani and the guys from In­dia; they are all com­ing out and throw­ing in the 90s. So, he would know what he has to do, and I mean, on the day they will have to throw the nine­ty-one and nine­ty-two in or­der to win. It’s very un­pre­dictable to win. We don’t have too much to wor­ry about at this stage.”

Look­ing to­wards LA 2028, Ser­rette said, Wal­cott will def­i­nite­ly be in the reck­on­ing for medals once he stays healthy.

He said, “Of course, I think be­cause this year he would have com­pet­ed at both the Com­mon­wealth Games in Glas­gow, Scot­land, and then trav­elled to San­to Domin­go, Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic, to com­pete at the Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games. It just shows you his in­ter­ests and how he wish­es to con­tin­ue par­tic­i­pat­ing and rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go.”