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 ...

When it comes to throwing, there’s likely a perception about what the requirement for generating quality in shot put and discus entails. On the boys side, one generality may be that you must be a ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

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 ...

DES MOINES — Winning a state championship is hard. 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 ...

The Nixa standout continues rewriting records, dominating both the shot put and discus while eyeing even bigger throws — and an NFL future Nixa junior Jackson Cantwell holds two of the best high ...

East Alton-Wood River grad and Olympian Jayden Ulrich, a senior at Louisville, has been named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week. EA-WR grad Jayden Ulrich, who competed in the women's discus ...

Cameron Gramzow established a couple of career throwing bests Friday. One was good for an Anchor Bay record. Both brought a smile to the junior’s face. Almont ends 20-game BWAC winless streak with win ...

Haryana’s Ujjawal Choudhary made history at the India Open Throws in Navi Mumbai, breaking the Indian U20 discus throw national record twice in a single competition, on Thursday. The young athlete ...