This year is one of the most exciting years to date for one reason and one reason only, writes Zara Obamakinwa, it’s Olympic year As the 2024 season begins to heat up, Neuff Athletic ambassador and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 29-year-old American sealed back-to-back golds at the Stade de France on Monday after an absorbing battle with China's Feng Bin and Croatia's two-time Olympic champion Sandra Elkasevic. Afterwards ...

(Reuters) -Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania shattered the world discus record on Sunday, eclipsing the longest-standing global men's mark in athletics set 38 years ago. The 21-year-old threw an astonishing ...

Indian para discus thrower Monu Ghangas has secured his spot in Paris Paralympics 2024 with his best throw of 34.70m in the Men’s Discus Throw F11 event at the World Para Athletics Championships 2024 ...

Mykolas Alekna broke the longest standing world record in men's athletics on Sunday, producing a mammoth 74.35-meter discus throw to shatter the nearly 38-year-old previous best mark. The 21-year-old ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Lithuanian Andrius Gudzius, a one-time junior prodigy, finally fulfilled expectations to shock the big names in the discus and take gold at the World Athletics Championships on ...