The Canterbury shot-putter Tom Walsh has finished sixth in the latest IAAF Diamond League athletics meeting in Zurich.
Tom Walsh who broke a Commonwealth Games record throw of 21.24 during qualifying for the Men's Shot Put. Track and Field at Hampden Park. Glasgow Commonwealth Games 2014. Sunday 27 July 2014. Photo: PHOTOSPORT
Walsh's best throw was his first of 20.48 metres.
He was 1.4 metres behind winner Reese Hoffa of the United States, who tops the Diamond rankings.
Walsh is fifth overall.
Commonwealth Games champion O'Dayne Richards of Jamaica finished fourth, 31 centimetres better than Walsh.
Walsh now heads to Berlin for the ISTAF World Challenge meeting on Monday before his final meeting of a very successful season, the Continental Cup in Marrakech, Morocco.
Jamaica's Veronica Campbell-Brown claimed her first win at a Diamond League meet since her doping controversy.
Campbell-Brown won the women's 100m in 11.04 seconds.
The meet failed to produce any season's best performances with Jamaican superstar Usain Bolt pulling out at the weekend, deciding to bring an early end to his season.
Commonwealth champion Kemar Bailey-Cole won the men's 100m in 9.96 to beat American Michael Rodgers.
Britain's European champion James Dasaolu clocked 10.06 to take third ahead of Jamaican Asafa Powell and former world champion Tyson Gay, both of whom returned from drugs bans this summer, and finished fourth and eighth respectively.
World record holder and Olympic gold medallist David Rushida finished third in the 800m, behind Botswana's Nijel Amos and Ayanleh Souleiman of Djibouti.
Amos, who beat Rushida to Commonwealth gold last month, finished first in 1:43.77, with Souleiman in 1:43.93, edging Rushida by three hundredths of a second.
World champion LaShawn Merritt eased to the 400m in 44.36, ahead of fellow American Gil Roberts in 44.96.
