Zurich Diamond League 2026: Rumesh Tharanga wins javelin with 92.07m throw

Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage continued his excellent season by profitable the javelin throw on the Zurich Diamond League 2026 with a large 92.07m effort on Thursday.

The 23-year-old Commonwealth Games champion produced the profitable throw along with his sixth and last try on the Letzigrund Stadium to complete comfortably forward of former world champion Anderson Peters of Grenada.

Peters took second place with a season-best 86.93m, whereas Poland’s Dawid Wegner completed third after setting a private better of 85.16m.

Tharanga, who got here into the competitors because the world chief following his 92.62m throw on the Rome Diamond League in June, began with 81.50m earlier than enhancing to 88.23m within the second spherical.

The Sri Lankan went even additional along with his third try, registering 89.90m to strengthen his grip on prime spot. He adopted it with 84.91m earlier than fouling his fifth try.

With victory already inside attain, Tharanga saved his greatest for final, sending the javelin out to 92.07m within the last spherical.

It was the second 92m-plus throw of his profession and solely 55cm in need of his national record and world-leading 92.62m mark set in Rome earlier this season.

Peters briefly set the early benchmark with an 86.93m opening throw however couldn’t enhance on it, recording 82.17m, 83.52m, 84.22m and 82.08m earlier than fouling his last try.

Wegner, in the meantime, produced his greatest effort of 85.16m within the fifth spherical to take the ultimate podium spot.

London 2012 Olympic champion Keshorn Walcott of Trinidad and Tobago completed fourth with 83.02m, whereas Kenya’s Julius Yego was fifth with 81.66m.

People Marc Anthony Minichello (80.38m) and Curtis Thompson (80.31m) occupied sixth and seventh, respectively. Germany’s Thomas Röhler, the Rio 2016 Olympic champion, completed eighth with 79.86m.

Switzerland’s Simon Wieland (75.35m) and Latvia’s Patriks Gailums (74.30m) accomplished the 10-man subject.

The victory continued a outstanding 2026 marketing campaign for Rumesh Tharanga, who has now gained 11 of his 12 competitions this 12 months, together with six in a row.

Since unleashing his 92.62m nationwide file in Rome, Rumesh adopted that with victories in Ostrava and on the Doha Diamond League earlier than changing into Sri Lanka’s first Commonwealth Video games javelin champion in Glasgow with an 89.75m effort.

Rumesh Tharanga then gained the Lausanne Diamond League final week, edging India’s Neeraj Chopra by simply 9 centimetres with an 88.14m throw, earlier than breaking the 92m barrier once more in Zurich.

Neeraj Chopra opted to skip the Zurich Diamond League.