BEIJING - Day five of the World Championships saw standout performances from all sides of the track, including Julius Yego's jaw-dropping javelin throw that gave fans the performance of a lifetime with the longest throw in 14 years. 
 

The Kenyan Olympian claimed his first World Championship with a heave of 92.72m Wednesday night at National Stadium. The mark shattered his previous personal best of 91.39m and was over three meters further than runner-up Ihab Abdelrahman of Egypt.  
 

Coming from a nation known for its distance running, Yego’s performance broke the African record and marks the first World Championship by a Kenyan thrower in the federation’s history.

Yego famously taught himself how to throw the javelin by watching YouTube videos and is known in his native Kenya as "Mr. YouTube." Yego is completely self-taught and self-coached. 

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Little and Tate brought some podium hardware to Team USA in the women’s 400m hurdles by taking silver and bronze in 53.94 and 54.02, respectively. Zuzana Hejnova of the Czech Republic won her second straight title in 53.50, a new world lead for 2015.
 

20-year-old Little made history by becoming the first ever to medal at the World Junior Championships (gold in 2014) and the World Championships in the following year.
 

Little, who won the World Junior Championship in 2014 and the U.S. Championship in 2015, just completed her sophomore year at Texas A&M University. She was the NCAA Champion in the event in 2014 and 2015.



Tate replicated her bronze medal performance from the 2013 championships in Moscow. The former LSU Tiger will look to make her first Olympic team in 2016. She finished fifth at the 2012 Olympic Trials after winning the NCAA title that same spring.