Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

He has set two world records, won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics, twice climbed the podium at the World Championships and is the youngest athlete ever to throw the discus 70 meters. He even has ...

Laulauga “Lagi” Tausaga, virtually unrecognized, flew home to San Diego on Sunday, headphones covering her ears and a pink Labubu doll hooked to her backpack. Prefontaine Classic women’s discus ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Australian discus king Matt Denny is chasing his first world championships medal in Tokyo and will do it alongside the man he regards as both the benchmark and a ...

BERKELEY — Mykolas Alekna has pretty much exceeded all expectations since arriving at Cal as the son of a former two-time Olympic discus champion. On Friday in Eugene, Oregon, in his final competition ...

World records set by three athletes, Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis, men's discus thrower Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania and Kenyan long-distance runner Beatrice Chebet, have been ratified by the ...

Waterford's Bryce Ruland winds up to throw the discus during the World Athletic U20 Championships in Lima, Peru, in late August. Ruland, then 17, won the discus title with a throw of 62.59 meters (205 ...

TOKYO - Sweden's world champion Daniel Stahl needed just one attempt to qualify for the men's discus final and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim kicked off his bid to add a high-jump Olympic gold to his rich haul ...

Leo Neugebauer set a world record in the discus and is poised to collect a second straight decathlon title at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. As if his national title-winning performance ...

An Aussie discus thrower who broke the world record last weekend has had his achievements marred by a bizarre claim of 'weather doping' from some commentators. Matthew Denny was competing at the ...