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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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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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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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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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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Track and field (section Discus throw)
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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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Carol Moseke (category American female discus throwers)
competing in the discus throw. She represented her native country at the 1968 Summer Olympics, and won the gold medal in the women's discus throw event at 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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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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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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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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metres, 110 metre hurdles, long jump, high jump, pole vault, discus throw, javelin throw, and shotput. The current official decathlon world record holder...
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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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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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Lillian Copeland (category American female discus throwers)
excelled in discus, javelin throwing, and shot put, setting multiple world records. She has been called "the most successful female discus thrower in U.S....
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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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Men's discus throw events for wheelchair athletes were held at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in the Athens Olympic Stadium. Events were held in eight disability...
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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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