Having competed against each other with some of the biggest prizes in discus on the line, Matt Denny and Lawrence Okoye are ...

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 ...

Nearly a year ago, 2021 Penn graduate Ashley Anumba wrote her goal to become an Olympian. And now, almost a year later, Anumba has officially crossed that goal off her checklist. Anumba stepped out ...

Team USA's Valarie Allman celebrated winning the gold medal in the women’s discus throw event on Monday.

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 ...

PORTLAND, Oregon — While you watch your favorite athletes go for gold, consider how all that time, distance, and height is achieved by balancing the same forces all of us mere mortals experience every ...

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 ...

The hammer throw, shot put and discus are amongst the ultimate displays of strength at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The shot put and discus have been part of the Olympic schedule since the very first ...