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 ...

The 2024 Olympics Track and Field Women's Discus preliminary groups competition is set for Friday, Aug. 2 at the Stade de France in Paris. Locally, East Alton-Wood River graduate and University of ...

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 ...

Valarie Allman took her place atop the discus world yet again. The American captured her second consecutive gold medal in discus on Monday after taking home the gold three years earlier in Tokyo ...

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 ...

During the day she’s a second-grade teacher at Almond Grove in Oakley, but when the school bell rings, Janice Chrobak is off to Freedom High School to teach athletes how to throw a shot put and 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 ...

It can appear to the naked eye as a blur; a frenzied whirlwind of arms and legs, but for Ancient Greece it epitomized an intoxicating marriage of harmony and balance. A sport with an almost ...

A two-time first-team All-Metro selection, McDonald won back-to-back Class 4 discus state championships. Unleashed a state-meet best of 188 feet, 8 inches as a senior. Had a personal best throw of 192 ...

Discus dynamo Matthew Denny, Australia’s first medallist in the sport, has set his sights on a perfect retirement and everyone from his home town is invited to the pub afterwards. Denny is already a ...

Owen Ostroski said all that added strength that made him a dominant presence for Holland Hall’s Class 3A football champs last fall is having a similar effect in track. In a four-day span, Ostroski and ...