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Since winning the javelin in Doha at the start of the season, Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki hadn’t won at any of the other IAAF Diamond League meetings. But the 2007 world champion put that right tonight in Monaco.
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The javelin victory for Pitkamaki

He led from the outset, opening with 84.97m before improving to 88.87m in the fourth round, a mark no one could get within three metres of. Pitkamaki passed his final two attempts, having felt some tightness in his groin during warm-up.

World champion Vitezslav Vesely was second with 85.44m with Czech compatriot Jakub Vadlejch moving into third with his penultimate throw, 84.32m. The season’s two 90-metre throwers, Keshorn Walcott and Julius Yego, finished fourth and sixth respectively with marks of 83.54m and 81.79m.