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Discus throw: 168 ft 3 in (51.28 m) Samantha Gutierrez: Riverside: 5/21/2010: Antelope Valley College: Hammer throw: 195 ft 10 in (59.69 m) Jessika Byrd: Riverside: 5/17/2013: College of San Mateo: Javelin throw: 162 ft 7 in (49.55 m) Melody Harris: Fresno City College: 5/18/2016: San Diego Mesa College: Heptathlon: 5424: Juanita Webster ...
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 — called a discus — in an attempt to mark a further distance than other competitors.
Tausaga won discus at 2017 Pan American U20 Athletics Championships. She won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest with a fifth throw of 69.49 m that raised her personal best by more than four metres, after finishing 12 and last in the discus final at the previous two world athletics championships.
Hammer throw: 66.61 m (218 ft 6 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) Branislav Daniš' Central Arizona College: Mesa, Arizona: 5/08/07 66.26 m (217 ft 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Remy Conatser Saddleback College: Los Angeles, California: 4/07/12 Javelin throw: 75.72 m (248 ft 5 in) Tom Pukstys: College of DuPage: Tallahassee, Florida: 3/18/88 Decathlon: 7532 David Lemen ...
Earlier in 1984 the IAAF had updated its decathlon scoring tables; the tables set in 1962 (with effect from 1964) would be replaced on 1 April 1985. [2] The world record performance at the changeover date would be recalculated using the new tables and become the new world record. [2]
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The men's discus throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California had an entry list of 20 competitors from 14 nations, with two qualifying groups before the final (12) took place on August 10, 1984. [1] The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress.
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