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 ...

East Alton-Wood River grad and Olympian Jayden Ulrich, a senior at Louisville, has been named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week. EA-WR grad Jayden Ulrich, who competed in the women's discus ...

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 ...

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 ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - At UMS-Wright, tradition runs deep - but every once in a while, a student-athlete comes along and rewrites the record books. Bulldogs’ discus thrower Chandler Taylor delivered a ...

BATTLE CREEK - When Alex Lutgring was in middle school, he happened to look up at the wall in the Pennfield High School gym at the track records listed there and saw a name he recognized. "Yeah, I saw ...

It’s not everyday that an athlete has the opportunity to break their own record. Sunsarai Moore did just that as she took first place in the discus event at the Group 1 Championship at Franklin High ...

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 ...

LA CROSSE - Just a short while after launching the second-longest discus throw in the history of U.S. high school athletics at the Stratford regional, Marathon thrower Chris Marcell has once again ...

TACOMA — Setting school and West Sound track and field records. Landing a college scholarship. Claiming multiple league and district titles. For South Kitsap's Grace Degarimore, her senior season with ...