Matt Denny finished in an agonising fourth place in a farcical discus final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. The competition was significantly delayed by torrential rain that hit Tokyo, ...

TOKYO, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Former Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden won the last gold medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Sunday with the penultimate throw of a men's discus final ...

BERKELEY — Mykolas Alekna has pretty much exceeded all expectations since arriving at Cal as the son of a former two-time Olympic discus champion. On Friday in Eugene, Oregon, in his final competition ...

MARATHON - It flew 220 feet, 8 inches. That’s the distance that Marathon thrower Chris Marcell posted in the discus throw event at the WIAA Division 3 Stratford regional to help his team win the ...

Wide-eyed and excited, Erika Beistle just wanted to have some fun while she was competing. The Grand Valley State athlete qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials in the discus and was looking forward to ...

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 meeting in the United ...

Discus records were smashed at the Continental Tour Bronze in Oklahoma but the event and the achievements were not without controversy. A Swedish commentator felt “weather doping” was at play as the ...

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Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania made history on Sunday by breaking the world discus record and becoming the first athlete to surpass the 75-meter mark. The 22-year-old threw 75.56 meters at the World ...