“I am not competing in the 60th National Open Athletics Championships starting next Wednesday as I have pain in my throwing arm. The doctor has advised me to take a break from competition as well as ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -One throw was all it took for the Valarie Allman of the United States to win Olympic gold in the women’s discus on Monday, with an effort of 68.98 metres. Germany’s Kristin Pudenz had ...

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 ...

The European city of Budapest in Hungary hosts the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which run from 19 to 27 August. Away from the track, the field events will include three disciplines in which ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bundaberg's Taryn Gollshewsky has won gold for discus at the 2022 Australian Althetics Championships in Sydney It comes less than a year after the 29-year-old broke her leg during a soccer match ...

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 ...

TOKYO, July 30 (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 ...