Solon discus thrower Ben Kampman wanted to cap off his high school track and field career as a state champion. On Thursday, he achieved his dream and became the first boys discus thrower to win a ...

PARIS, France — Discus throw is one of the premier track and field events held every four years at the Summer Olympics. In the discus throw, athletes hurl a metal disc-shaped object as far as they can ...

Solon’s Ben Kampman does a back flip as he celebrates winning the 3A discus during the 2024 Iowa High School State Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, May 16 ...

Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

EUGENE, ORE. - On Thursday, Madeleine Fey of the Kansas Track & Field Team, won the USATF U20 National Championship in the Women's Discus. "Maddie did a great job of staying focused and competing," ...

Valarie Allman took her place atop the discus world yet again. The American captured her second consecutive gold medal in discus on Monday after taking home the gold three years earlier in Tokyo ...

Solon’s Ben Kampman knows what it takes to compete on the big stage in high school sports. The fourth-year Spartan has competed in Class 3A state football, the Drake Relays and the state boys track ...

Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men's discus, the oldest world record in men's track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...

LAKEWOOD – Jaedyn Kohn sat on the cusp of an early exit from the girls discus one year after earning a title in the event. Kohn scratched on her first two throws in the 3A discus finals Friday ...

The 2024 Olympics Track and Field Women's Discus preliminary groups competition is set for Friday, Aug. 2 at the Stade de France in Paris. Locally, East Alton-Wood River graduate and University of ...

ST. MICHAEL — Dylan Gross made it a sweep. After winning the shot put state title Thursday, the Brainerd senior finished his career with a state title in the discus at the Class 3A State Finals ...

(CNN) — Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s ...