SHANGHAI, May 18 (Xinhua) -- China's Lyu Huihui successfully defended her javelin throw title while Wang Yu pulled off the men's high jump victory at the IAAF Shanghai Diamond League event here on Saturday.

Lyu, 2017 world championships bronze medalist, improved her own meet record set last year by four centimeters to lift the victory in 66.89 meters.

"I still have room for improvement on today's 66.89m. I will adjust myself and get well prepared for the Doha World Championships," said Lyu.

Lyu, 29, got her season off to a promising start as she just recorded her personal best of 67.72 meters in April's National Athletics Grand Prix series in Huangshi, Hubei province en route to set a new Asian record.

Latvia's Lina Muze, 26, took silver in 64.87 while Germany's Christin Hussong, 2018 European champion, was third in 64.10.

The 27-year-old Wang proved he is a man of his words as he created a season best of 2.28 meters to take the high jump victory.

"This is the fourth time I will compete here and in the past three years my place moved up one slot each year. I finished fourth in my debut in 2016 and I believe this year I can win," Wang said before the competition.