TOKYO, Sept 20: Three-time Olympic javelin champion Jan Zelezny will not make his farewell appearance in Japan this weekend, having ended his career at his home stadium in the Czech Republic.

The 40-year-old Czech had planned to retire after this Sunday's Super Track and Field meeting in Yokohama.

Zelezny, who has been struggling with an Achilles problem, took part in an exhibition in his native Czech Republic on Tuesday, in what he said was his last-ever throw.

“This is where I began with athletics, now I have finished here,” Zelezny said at a stadium bearing his name in Mlada Boleslav, north of Prague.

“I will not go to Yokohama, I wanted to finish here.

“This is from where departed for first meetings, only after then people began to know me,” daily Lidove Noviny quoted him as saying.—Reuters