This week's edition of my summer series "Challenging Charlton" pinned me up against two-time Class C shot put and discus ...

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 ...

STEUBENVILLE, OH (WTRF) – On Wednesday, the Steubenville Board of Education applauded the hard work of a student-athlete. Bri ...

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 ...

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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 ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — 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 ...

April 15 (Reuters) - Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a ...

Check out Iryna Yatchenko's Olympic medals list, appearances, achievements, Olympics records and stats, age, country, ...

On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...

Discus throwers are stronger than 99% of people who play football according to an athlete who has played both sports. British behemoth Lawrence Okoye, 29, is targeting one of the longest discus throws ...