Season’s best for Walsh

Tom Walsh has delivered a confidenceboosting, season’s best performance for shot put victory at the Irena Szewinska Memorial meet in Poland yesterday. The 31-year-old former world champion from Christchurch produced his best series of the year to dominate the field and emerge with a winning throw of 22.22 metres – a meet record and the furthest the Kiwi has thrown since his 22.26m to claim gold at the Commonwealth Games last August. Walsh now heads to the US for a short training block before returning to Europe to open his pre-world championships schedule at the Ostrava Golden Spike meet in the Czech Republic on June 27.