When Ian Hansen first started track and field in sixth grade, the Clinton Township resident had to make a choice. “They said we could sign up for running or throwing,” Hansen said. “I picked throwing ...

Shot-put and discus throwers don’t get a lot of glory. Joel Reed knows that firsthand as a former thrower and current throwing coach at Monroe High. “I threw back in high school,” he said. “There is ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than 13 feet at world championships on Tuesday to win the title ...

Josiah Lodeserto's discus throw of more than 200 feet for Fayetteville Christian is the longest ever by a middle schooler.

Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

The Warrior junior came into the state meet with the top discus mark in South Dakota and left with his first Class A state ...

TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - American double Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman said she finally "feels complete" after claiming the world title that had proved so elusive when she took an emphatic ...

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s throw of 74 ...

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 ...