“I am not competing in the 60th National Open Athletics Championships starting next Wednesday as I have pain in my throwing arm. The doctor has advised me to take a break from competition as well as ...

MELBOURNE (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 drinking buddy: ...

Indian discus thrower Kamalpreet Kaur was provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) on Wednesday after testing positive for a banned substance. May 4 (Reuters) - Indian discus ...

TOKYO, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Two-time Olympic champion Valarie Allman of the United States claimed the women's discus throw title at the World Athletics Championships on Sunday. Allman, the silver ...

Veteran Indian discus thrower Seema Punia clinched a silver medal at the Qosanov Memorial athletics meet in Almaty, Kazakhstan on Saturday. The 39-year-old Seema, the 2014 Asian Games champion, hurled ...

If it wasn’t for a school carnival in Year 5, his life would be vastly different, and he may still be playing rugby instead of throwing a discus on the world stage. The equipment and conditions were ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sweden's world champion Daniel Stahl needed just one attempt to qualify for the men's discus final and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim kicked off his bid to add a high-jump Olympic gold to his ...

National discus-throw record holder Kamalpreet Kaur has been provisionally suspended for allegedly failing a dope test conducted by the Athletics Integrity Unit. The independent body, that is set up ...

(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 meeting in the ...

Nicholas Percy threw a personal best of 65.00m at the UK Athletics Championships in June Discus thrower Nicholas Percy said he was "ecstatic" to be called up for his second World Athletics ...

Kamalpreet Kaur, India’s Tokyo Olympic Games finalist in the women's discus throw, has been included in the World Athletics Registered Testing Pool (RTP) programme for 2022. She is the second Indian ...

Veteran discus thrower Seema Punia on Tuesday qualified for Tokyo Olympics with a best effort of 63.70m while winning gold on the final day of the National Inter-State Athletics Championships in ...