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    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 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 men's discus throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held in Paris, France, on 5 and 7 August 2024. Still only 21 years old, Mykolas Alekna dominated...
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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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  • Look up discus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The discus throw is a track and field event in which athletes throw a heavy disc as far as they can...
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  • The men's discus throw event at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, took place between 1 and 6 September 2024 at the Stade de France.   *   Host nation...
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  • "Men's Decathlon - Discus Throw results" (PDF). Olympics. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 8 August 2024. "Men's Decathlon - Discus Throw results summary" (PDF)...
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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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  • 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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    nortestosterone. "World Record Progression of Discus Throw". World Athletics. Retrieved 15 April 2024. M Discus world record progress Archived 2012-06-06...
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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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  • "World Para Athletics Paralympic Records". 17 October 2017. "Men's Discus Throw - F52 medal results - Paris Paralympics 2024". BBC. "World Para Athletics...
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    jump, high jump, and pole vault, while the most common throwing events are shot put, javelin, discus, and hammer. There are also "combined events" or "multi...
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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 74.35 metres...
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    The Women's discus throw athletics events for the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place at the Stade de France from August 27 to September 4, 2024. A total...
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    an American discus thrower. He won the NCAA and AAU titles in 1935 and 1936, becoming the first two-time NCAA champion in a weight throw event from the...
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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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    starting with the stadion (a short foot race), followed by the javelin throw, discus throw and long jump (the order of these three events is still unclear)...
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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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    injury. He was a shot put and discus thrower, which won him many prizes in these sports. He was the champion of discus throw from Maharashtra in 1996. He...
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  • Athletics. Retrieved 4 October 2024. "Men's Discus Throw F52 Results". BBC. Retrieved 14 October 2024. "Men's Discus Throw - F56 Final" (PDF). IPC. 20 August 2014...
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  • Mediterranean Gamess. In the 1990s Hanan Ahmed Khaled won many gold medals in discus throw and shot put. More recently a new generation of Egyptian athletes supervised...
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  • 10:05. The discus throw hurdles event was started on 26 August at 11:02. The pole vault event was started on 26 August at 12:48. The javelin throw event was...
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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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  • 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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    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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    Praveen Kumar Sobti (category Indian male discus throwers)
    Sobti (6 December 1947 – 7 February 2022) was an Indian hammer and discus thrower, film actor, politician, and soldier with Border Security Force. As...
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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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    The men's discus throw competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens was held at the Olympic Stadium on 21–23 August. It was originally planned to...
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