2025 World Athletics Championship: Rumesh Tharanga qualifies for Men’s Javelin final event
September 17, 2025 06:57 pm
Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage qualified for the Men’s Javelin Throw final event at the 2025 World Athletics Championship in Tokyo.
Pathirage qualified for the final with a throw of 82.8 m in the qualification round held at the Japan National Stadium today.
Anderson Peters of Grenada had the longest throw in the qualifiers. He qualified with a throw of 89.53m while Germany’s Julian Weber threw a distance of 87.21m.
Sri Lanka’s Sumedha Ranasinghe could not qualify for the final after finishing 15th in the qualifying round with a distance of 81.86m.
The final of the Men’s Javelin Throw event is scheduled to be held tomorrow afternoon.
