Pranav Soorma compared his Asian Para Games gold medal to Virat Kohli occasionally taking a wicket with the ball. The Indian ...

India's Kamalpreet Kaur qualified for the final of the women's discus throw at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday. Seema Punia, India's other entry in the event and a four-time Olympian, failed to make ...

On June 6, 1986, Juergen Schult set the world discus record at a meet in East Germany, reaching 74.08 meters. Nearly three months later, Yuriy Sedykh did the same for the hammer throw, setting the new ...

Suvarna had four throws that went over the 15-metre mark across all of her six attempts ...

Track and field will never fail to surprise its fans: a sport full of tiny details, where the smallest of margins separates moments of glory from those of agony and heartache. Jamaican discus thrower ...

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RAMONA, Okla. -- Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania broke a world record in the discus throw that had stood since 1986 on Sunday at the Oklahoma Throws Series competition. Alekna's throw of 243 feet, 11 ...

Haryana’s Nishchay breaks a 16-year national U18 discus record en route to gold at the National Junior Athletics ...

Indian para-athlete Pranav Soorma, broke a new Asian record to bag the gold medal in the men's discus throw event at the Para ...

April 15 (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 ...

Suvarna Raj won India's first gold of the day at the Asian Para Games 2026 in the women’s discus throw. Para-archer Swati ...