25th July 2013 06:53
The Russian 21-year-old is having the summer of his life: in June he triumphed at the European Athletics Team Championships in Gateshead and earlier this month he won gold at the Universiade in Kazan.
But this week it was all about qualifying for the major event of the outdoor season and at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, where the IAAF World Championships start in just over a fortnight, Russian Tarabin did more than just secure his place.
In the final round of the competition at these national championships, Tarabin threw 88.84m.
Not only it is the best throw in the world this year, it is the furthest anyone has launched the spear since Norway's double Olympic champion Andreas Thorkildsen's 90.61m on 14 August, 2011.
It puts Tarabin in an even stronger position with the world Championships so close.
He had been third on the world rankings with the 85.99m which brought victory in Gateshead but now he has replaced European champion Vitezslav Vesely, of the Czech Republic, who had led the way this year with 87.68m.
Tarabin had started well with 84.49m in the first round of a competition where no-one else cleared 80m, but he was not the only field eventer to register a world-leading performance.
Tatyana Lysenko will be defending her hammer title in Moscow, she is also the Olympic champion and she is heading into the World Championships on a high after two brilliant throws.
Lysenko started with 77.27m, which overtook fellow Russian Oksana Kondratyeva's 77.13m at the top of the world lists, and then in the second round she took her mark to 78.15m.
Her best this year had been 74.07m but she is timing her peak towards the World Championships in style.
Kondratyeva was third with 74.52m behind second-placed Anna Bulgakova, who threw a personal best of 76.17m.
With Lysenko qualified for the World Championships as defending champion, the fourth to make it through from these trials was Gulfiya Khanafeyeva with 70.91m.
Olympic 400m hurdles champion winner Natalya Antyukh did not run in the final after competing in the heats and the title was won by Irina Davydova in 55.49 while Kseniya Zadorina won the 400m in a in a lifetime best of 50.55 ahead of Tatyana Firova, second in 50.71, and Kseniya Ryzhova, third in 50.82.
The women's high jump saw the return of Yelena Slesarenko, the 2004 Olympic champion who missed London because she was pregnant. She is hoping for a B-standard place at the Championships with defending champion Anna Chicherova qualified as a wild-card and cleared 1.92m as Svetlana Shkolina won on count-back with 1.97m ahead of Tatyana Gordeyeva.
European champion Sergey Shubenkov had been pre-selected but he competed and won the 110m hurdles in 13.19m, beating Konstantin Shabanov, second in 13.50.