PARIS, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Valarie Allman of the United States underlined her status as the hot favourite to retain her Olympic discus title when she led qualifying with a 69.59 metre throw on Friday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Double Olympic champion Sandra Perkovic eased her way to a second world discus title after being the only athlete to throw over 70 metres at the World Championships on Sunday. The ...

Follow our Olympics coverage in the lead-up to the Paris Games. EUGENE, Ore. — Valarie Allman’s gold medal was secured. Her spot in Paris was never really in question. Whatever suspense existed in the ...

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 ...

(Adds details, quotes) By Nick Mulvenney RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - German Christoph Harting dramatically snatched Olympic discus gold from Poland's Piotr Malachowski with his last throw if ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Jamaican discus thrower Jason Morgan has lost his appeal over being excluded from their Olympics team despite having reached the qualifying standard, the top sport ...

EUGENE, ORE. - On Thursday, Madeleine Fey of the Kansas Track & Field Team, won the USATF U20 National Championship in the Women's Discus. "Maddie did a great job of staying focused and competing," ...

With hair sprouting from the top of his visor, gold glinting from his ears and Squidward socks on his feet, Joseph Brown is fairly recognizable from the discus ring. But for the U.S. Olympic Track and ...

CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Central junior Shelby Kirkbride heaved the shot put 34 feet, 2¾ inches to win the title at the Laramie County throwers only meet Tuesday at Central. Kirkbride also took third in ...

Oklahoma men’s track hadn’t had an individual national champion since 2009. It got two on Saturday at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Discus thrower Ralford Mullings, ranked No. 2 in the country ...