MOORHEAD-The first time Hillary Birchem threw a discus, the experience wasn't pleasant. "I said I would never do it again," said Birchem, from Lisbon, N.D. A high school freshman at the time, Birchem ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Delsea star senior and Penn State commit Hannah Nuhfer ended her week in Eugene, Oregon with a third-place effort in the discus at Nike Nationals to earn All-American honors. Nuhfer, NJ.com’s Field ...

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 ...

Ralford Mullings retained his senior discus throw title at the JAAA national championships at the National Stadium on Saturday after throwing 64.31m to secure his place on the team to the Commonwealth ...

With competitors clapping in rhythm around the ring, Dylan Kolenovsky unleashed the final discus throw of his high school ...

RAMONA, Okla. (AP) — Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania broke a world record in the discus throw that had stood since 1986 on Sunday at the Oklahoma Throws Series competition. Alekna's throw of 243 feet, 11 ...

Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna, the 2024 Olympic silver medallist, broke his own world record when he became the first man to ...

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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 ...