With competitors clapping in rhythm around the ring, Dylan Kolenovsky unleashed the final discus throw of his high school ...

Florida’s Alida van Daalen arrives at the NCAA Championships poised to cap a record-setting career with a discus crown.

Jaslene Massey realized something special was happening when saw her hand in her field of vision. “I knew,” Massey said.

Sarah Piner reached back and found a throw she hadn't done all year. With it, the Riverheads sophomore won a state title in ...

HASTINGS, Minn. - Throwing the discus or shot put is the most technique-heavy event in track and field. A thrower has to perfect every motion from their feet to their arms to excel. Todd Levos, the ...

Track and field will never fail to surprise its fans: a sport full of tiny details, where the smallest of margins separates moments of glory from those of agony and heartache. Jamaican discus thrower ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than four meters (13 feet) at world championships on ...

Josiah Lodeserto's discus throw of more than 200 feet for Fayetteville Christian is the longest ever by a middle schooler.

CHARLESTON, Ill. (WMBD) – It was an exhilarating Saturday for Central Illinois boys track and field athletes at the state meet in Charleston. Central Illinois swept the 800 in all three classes.

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 ...

Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna, the 2024 Olympic silver medallist, broke his own world record when he became the first man to ...

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