Walsh wins fifth Daimond League title
- Dave Worsley
- 5 hours ago
- 1 min read
Kiwi shot putter Tom Walsh's top 2025 season has continued with victory at the Diamond League meet in Rome.
Walsh qualified third for the and then threw 21.89 metres with the first of his six attempts, a season's best distance by 18 centimetres.
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It proved to be too good for the rest of the field, with Italian Zane Weir coming second on 21.67m just ahead of Rajindra Campbell of Jamaica in third.
The win in Rome is Walsh's fifth career victory at a Diamond League event, following successes in Brussels in 2015 and 2019, and Zurich in 2016 and 2018.
The win also follows Walsh claiming his third World Indoor Title in February, in China.
Two other New Zealanders were in action in Rome including Olympic high jump champion Hamish Kerr who was sixth with a height of 2.20.
He was top qualifier but failed at all three attempts at 2.23m, well below his season's best of 2.32 and his personal best of 2.36.
Korea's Woo Sang-hyeok, who finished seventh at last year's Paris Olympics and is a two-time World Indoor Champion, won the high jump, with a leap of 2.32.
Imogen Ayris the bronze medalist at the 2022 Commonwealth Games was eighth in the women's pole vault at 4.50m