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 ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Australian discus king Matt Denny is chasing his first world championships medal in Tokyo and will do it alongside the man he regards as both the benchmark and a ...

The Indian Open Throws Competition saw Shivam Lohakare secure gold in the men's javelin with a throw of 81.08m. Anand Singh and Kishore Kumar Jena took silver and bronze, respectively. In the U18 ...

Nearly a year ago, 2021 Penn graduate Ashley Anumba wrote her goal to become an Olympian. And now, almost a year later, Anumba has officially crossed that goal off her checklist. Anumba stepped out ...

Team USA's Valarie Allman celebrated winning the gold medal in the women’s discus throw event on Monday.

PARIS, France (NEXSTAR) — Team USA’s Valarie Allman struck gold again in women’s discus throwing 69.50m. That makes back to back gold for Allman, previously winning gold in the 2021 Tokyo Games.

PORTLAND, Oregon — While you watch your favorite athletes go for gold, consider how all that time, distance, and height is achieved by balancing the same forces all of us mere mortals experience every ...

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 ...

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 ...