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At 21 years old, Mykolas Alekna set a new discus throw world record with a distance of 74.35 m (243 ft 11 in) during a competition in Ramona, Oklahoma.His performance included three throws exceeding 72 meters and all six surpassing 70 meters, making it one of the most consistent series in the sport’s history.
The men's discus throw has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896 (one of two throws events at the first Olympics, alongside the shot put). The women's event was first contested at the 1928 Olympics, being one of the five athletics events in the inaugural Olympic women's programme.
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.
Former Clemson men's track and field athlete Rojé Stona set an Olympic record in the discus throw to win gold at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.. Stona recorded a throw of 70.00 meters in the ...
Valarie Allman’s unprecedented path to double Olympic gold might spark a dance-to-discus pipeline. Allman dominated the women’s discus competition on Monday night, winning gold despite not ...
Vanderbilt's Veronica Fraley just missed the cut for the final in the women's discus competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday. Fraley's best throw was 62.54 meters, which placed 13th among ...
Today the sport of discus is a routine part of modern track-and-field meets at all levels, and retains a particularly iconic place in the Olympic Games. The main poster for the 1920 Summer Olympics The first modern athlete to throw the discus while rotating the whole body was František Janda-Suk from Bohemia (the present Czech Republic ). [ 4 ]
The men's discus throw event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 30 and 31 July 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] Approximately 35 athletes were expected to compete; the exact number depended on how many nations use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through distance or ranking (no universality places were used in 2016).