{"id":1363,"date":"2016-08-27T15:14:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T15:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/2016\/08\/27\/vadlejch-pulls-off-javelin-upset\/"},"modified":"2016-08-27T15:14:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T15:14:32","slug":"vadlejch-pulls-off-javelin-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/vadlejch-pulls-off-javelin-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Vadlejch pulls off javelin upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Jakub Vadlejch, who finished ninth at the European Championships and eighth at the most recent Olympic Games, created a mild surprise in the javelin event at the MEETING de PARIS on Saturday evening. Courtesy of an eye-catching throw of 88.02m (a new personal best), which he achieved with his third attempt, the 25-year-old Czech saw off the challenge of Germany\u2019s Julian Weber (87.39m), who took second. Reigning Olympic champion and Diamond League leader Thomas R\u00f6hler (GER) was third with a throw of 84.16m. Trinidadian athlete Keshorn Walcott, who claimed a bronze medal in Rio, finished fifth (82.40m), just behind Ukraine\u2019s Dmytro Kosynskyy, who registered a new personnel best of 84.08m. Olympic decathlon silver medallist Kevin Mayer (FRA), who had decided to take part in the javelin competition, finished \u2013predictably \u2013 in last place with a throw of 60.11m.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czech javelin thrower Jakub Vadlejch recorded a surprise result at the MEETING de PARIS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1363"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}