PARIS, France — Discus throw is one of the premier track and field events held every four years at the Summer Olympics. In the discus throw, athletes hurl a metal disc-shaped object as far as they can ...

ROMEROME — Former world champion Kristjan Ceh of Slovenia won the discus throw amid a world-class field on the opening night of the European athletics championships Friday. Ceh’s throw reached 68.08 ...

Jaxon Day didn't need a reminder of how quickly momentum and results can swing in track and field. The Winner junior learned that lesson the hard way a year ago. Now, he's turning it into fuel for one ...

Day one of the OSAA track and field state championships is done and Salem-area athletes flooded the results. Here's how they did.

Valarie Allman, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, still is searching for her first win at the World Athletics Championships, and she took another step toward achieving that goal with a victory Sunday ...

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 ...

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. Roje Stona's ...

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 ...