Unlike various track events and the horizontal jumps, the discus throw has no restrictions on wind assistance when it comes to validating records and Millican Field in Oklahoma features several ...

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 ...

The discus throw event is one of the four track and field throwing events at the Olympics. The event requires a competitor to spin in a 2.5m diameter circle before hurling a heavy disk ...

The world record followed in April 2024, when all his six throws – alongside his new all-time mark – were over the elite 70-meter mark. Alekna’s success in the discus throw is testament to ...

Defending a state title can be even harder. Unless you're Delilah Subsin, who clinched her second straight win in the Class 4A girls discus throw on Thursday in spectacular fashion. The Ottumwa ...

SAINT-DENIS, France − Team USA women's discus thrower Veronica Fraley let it fly in the right frame of mind Friday, but it didn't fly quite far enough. Fraley's best throw among three went 62.54 ...

where he launched the discus 74.35m. The 2024 Olympic silver medalist was in sensational form, opening the competition with a world record throw of 74.89m before extending it even further in the ...

PARIS, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Lithuania's world record-holder Mykolas Alekna showed he is the man to beat in the men's discus at the Paris Olympics after his leading throw in Monday's preliminary round.

Matthew Denny has produced the fifth-longest throw in discus history and recorded a new personal best with a 72.07m throw in Oklahoma. Denny broke his own national record by almost 3cm as he ...