Valarie Allman, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, still is searching for her first win at the World Athletics Championships, and she took another step toward achieving that goal with a victory Sunday ...

TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - American double Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman said she finally "feels complete" after claiming the world title that had proved so elusive when she took an emphatic ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Imrich Bugár, the first world champion in men’s discus and an Olympic medalist for Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 70. His former club, Dukla, said he died Wednesday but did not ...

When the 1983 World Athletics Championships were held for the first edition, it opened a new phase in track and field history. But in that debut, the 28-year-old Czechoslovak discus thrower threw his ...

Xiomara Saldarriaga shines at Meeting of L’Hospitalet while Tatyana McFadden improves her own world record in Arbon in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PRAGUE (AP) — Imrich Bugár, the first world champion in men’s discus and an Olympic medalist for Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 70. His former club, Dukla, said he died Wednesday but did not ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. PRAGUE (AP) — Imrich Bugár, the first world champion in men’s discus and an Olympic medalist for ...