On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...

Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

Time now to recognize a freshman phenom over at Pass Christian high school! In his most recent meet, Samuel King broke the ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a ...

East Alton-Wood River grad and Olympian Jayden Ulrich, a senior at Louisville, has been named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week. EA-WR grad Jayden Ulrich, who competed in the women's discus ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Australian discus king Matt Denny is chasing his first world championships medal in Tokyo and will do it alongside the man he regards as both the benchmark and a ...

Olympic track and field athletes, including world record-setting discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, are competing in Paris this week. Alekna’s journey included a stop in Ramona, Oklahoma, where he set the ...

Greater Cincinnati has a deep track and field history, but two events that should not get overlooked are the shot put and discus. Athletes from Western Brown and Walton-Verona still hold state discus ...

In the final week of the Olympics in Paris, the mood among Jamaicans has been rather subdued. Many have expressed disappointment and frustration, as the expected medal tally did not materialise — on ...

PARIS, France — Discus throw is one of the premier track and field events held every four years at the Summer Olympics. In the discus throw, athletes hurl a metal disc-shaped object as far as they can ...

April 13, 2025 could have been remembered as the day when multiple discus throw records were broken at a meet in the United States. But now, it may go down in history as the day a new term entered the ...