MELBOURNE (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 drinking buddy: ...

(Reuters) -Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania shattered the world discus record on Sunday, eclipsing the longest-standing global men's mark in athletics set 38 years ago. The 21-year-old threw an astonishing ...

First of all, the rules. Athletes throw a metal disc weighing 2kg for men (22cm in diameter) and 1kg (18cm in diameter) for women, as far as possible while remaining inside a 2.5-metre diameter circle ...

TOKYO, Sept 21 - Former Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden won the last gold medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Sunday with the penultimate throw of a men's discus final delayed ...

Funmi Oduwaiye admits she is still a baby in para-athletics but is up for the challenge as she makes her Paralympic debut. Oduwaiye has only been competing in throwing events since 2022, having ...

India got off to a good start at the Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on Wednesday with four medals in their kitty – a gold and three silvers. While Deepanshu ...

A slew of records were broken at a World Athletics event in Oklahoma - and everyone’s pointing fingers at the weather. The Continental Tour Bronze event saw new world records in discus in both the men ...

In all, 32 sports will be part of the program for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Each sport has its own international federation, and within a sport, several disciplines can coexist - such as road ...