First of all, the rules. Athletes throw a metal disc weighing 2kg for men (22cm in diameter) and 1kg (18cm in diameter) for women, as far as possible while remaining inside a 2.5-metre diameter circle ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sweden's world champion Daniel Stahl needed just one attempt to qualify for the men's discus final and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim kicked off his bid to add a high-jump Olympic gold to his ...

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.

Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. EUGENE, Ore. — Valarie Allman’s gold medal was secured. Her spot in Paris was never really in question. Whatever suspense existed in the ...

Nicholas Percy threw a personal best of 65.00m at the UK Athletics Championships in June Discus thrower Nicholas Percy said he was "ecstatic" to be called up for his second World Athletics ...

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 Tuesday to win the title, she ...

Indian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday after testing positive for a banned substance. May 4 (Reuters) - Indian discus ...

Aug 12 (Gracenote) - Olympic athletics men's discus throw qualification results in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. Group B 1. Christoph Harting (Germany) 65.41 metres 2. Mason Finley (U.S.) 63.68 3. Axel ...

Explore the scores and performances of each discus Throw in athletics. Follow the full results of the Paris 2024 Olympics with « Le Monde ».

Reigning Olympic champion Valarie Allman didn’t add another gold medal to her haul, but the world’s top-ranked women’s discus athlete still came through with a podium finish Wednesday night. Allman’s ...

TOKYO, July 30 (Reuters) - Australian Matthew Denny probably spent the most nervous 24 hours of his career before going on to qualify for the men's discus throw final at the Tokyo Olympics on Friday.