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Valarie Carolyn Allman (born February 23, 1995) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the discus throw. [5] She is a two time Olympic champion, having won the gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics.
Pages in category "American female discus throwers" The following 71 pages are in this category, out of 71 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
Female discus throwers from Georgia (country) (1 P) German female discus throwers (2 C, 49 P) Greek female discus throwers (6 P) H. Hungarian female discus throwers ...
Laulauga Tausaga-Collins (born 22 May 1998 in Hawaii) is an American discus thrower. With a personal best throw of 69.49 m, she won the gold medal at the 2023 World Athletics Championships . [ 2 ] She also won the gold medal at the 2022 NACAC Championships .
At the end of the third round, Laulauga Tausaga had to throw a 65.56m personal best to leap from dead last 12th place into fifth place and a chance to make three more throws. She had needed to throw a personal best 65.46m as the final throw at her USA National Championships just to be eligible to come to these championships. On her newly earned ...
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) champion and a record seven-time European champion (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2024) which makes her the most decorated female discus thrower in history. [4]
For the women's discus throw event, the qualification period was between 1 July 2023 and 30 June 2024. 32 athletes were able to qualify for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per nation, by throwing the entry standard of 64.50 m or further or by their World Athletics Ranking for this event. [6] [7]
Brown Trafton competed in the 2004 Olympic Trials in Sacramento, California in both the shot put and the discus throw. Her best throw coming into the discus competition was 192 feet. In the first throw of the discus final, she threw a 9-foot personal best of 201 feet 3 inches, surpassing the international A-standard mark, and qualified for her ...