The discus throw (pronunciation), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight –...
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The discus throw is one of four track and field throwing events held at the Summer Olympics. The men's discus throw has been present on the Olympic athletics...
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The men's discus throw event at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships was held on 30 May. The event schedule, in local time (UTC+8), was as follows: "2025...
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Discobolus (redirect from The Discus Thrower)
The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period...
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The women's discus throw event at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships was held on 29 May. The event schedule, in local time (UTC+8), was as follows:...
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Abuduaini Tuergong (category Chinese male discus throwers)
Turghun; born 16 June 1997) is a Chinese discus thrower of Uyghur ethnicity. He obtained a gold medal in the discus throw event of the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships...
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Retrieved 28 May 2025. "26th Asian Athletics Championships - Men's decathlon discus throw results" (PDF). Asian Athletics. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025....
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Samantha Hall (born 19 April 1993) is a Jamaican discus thrower and multiple-time national champion. She attended St Jago High School and the University...
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Rojé Stona (category Jamaican male discus throwers)
February 1999) is a Jamaican track and field athlete who competes in the discus throw. He broke the Olympic record to win the gold medal at the 2024 Summer...
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Mykolas Alekna (category Lithuanian male discus throwers)
(born 28 September 2002) is a Lithuanian athlete who specializes in the discus throw. He is the current world record holder of the event with 75.56 metres...
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Sandra Elkasević (category Croatian female discus throwers)
Sandra Elkasević (née Perković; born 21 June 1990) is a Croatian discus thrower. She is a two-time Olympic (2012 London, 2016 Rio) and world (2013, 2017)...
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nortestosterone. "World Record Progression of Discus Throw". World Athletics. Retrieved 16 April 2025. M Discus world record progress Archived 6 June 2012...
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Matthew Denny (category Australian male discus throwers)
an Australian athlete specialising in the discus throw. He won the bronze medal in the men's discus throw at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Denny grew up in...
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men's discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 5 and 7 August 2024. At 21 years old, Mykolas Alekna set a new discus throw world...
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Ancient Olympic pentathlon, starting with the long jump, javelin throwing, and discus throwing, followed by the stadion (a short foot race) and wrestling....
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being the last of the current throwing events to feature at the Olympics after the shot put, discus throw and hammer throw. The women's event was first...
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Kamalpreet Kaur (category Indian female discus throwers)
performance came when she finished 6th in discus throw at Tokyo 2020. Kaur set a national record in discus throw with an attempt of 65.06 m and qualified...
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The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put...
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Hurdles Results" (PDF). Hangzhou 2022. 2023-10-03. "Men's Decathlon Discus Throw Results" (PDF). Hangzhou 2022. 2023-10-03. "Men's Decathlon Pole Vault...
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throwing for distance sports are in track and field: shot put, discus, javelin, and the hammer throw. Target-based sports have two main genres: bowling and darts...
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Krishna Poonia created history by winning the 2010 Commonwealth women's discus throw, becoming the first Commonwealth athletics gold medallist for India in...
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Valarie Allman (category American female discus throwers)
23, 1995) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the discus throw. She is a two time Olympic champion, having won the gold medal at the...
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The women's discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 2 and 5 August 2024. This was the 23rd time that the event is contested...
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shot put, and 100 yards. Consisted of long jump, javelin throw, 200 metres, discus throw, and 1500 metres. Sport of athletics portal Athletics at the...
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Al Oerter (category American male discus throwers)
2007) was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw. He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual...
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Joseph Brown (born June 13, 1996) is an American discus thrower. He finished third in the US Olympic trials in 2024. From Mansfield, Texas he attended...
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Kathuniya won silver medals in the men's high jump T47 and the men's discus throw F56 events respectively, in a repeat of their performance from Tokyo...
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specialises in the discus throw. Greaves was born in Anstey, Leicestershire in 1982. Greaves won the gold medal in the F44/46 category discus throw at the 2004...
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The first world record in the women's discus throw was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1923. As of 2013, 55 world...
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The men's discus throw event at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships was held on 15 July. Results at Tilastopaja Results "Discus Throw men - World record...
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