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 throw of 74 ...

MYKOLAS ALEKNA broke his dad’s 20-year-old Olympic record during the discus throw final in Paris. The Lithuanian athlete, 21, was making his Olympic debut after coming through qualifying on Monday.

Discus thrower Philippa Roles has died at the age of 39, UK Athletics has announced. The two-time Olympian - who represented Great Britain in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008 - died at the weekend.

Alan Toward warmed up for this weekend’s North Eastern Counties Track and Field Championships with an impressive England debut performance in the Loughborough International. The Northumbria University ...

Former Welsh Olympic discus thrower Philippa Roles passed away on Monday, UK Athletics has announced. The 39-year-old, from Neath, competed at both the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. She also ...

Krishna Poonia, the 2010 Commonwealth Games gold medallist, had finished seventh in women's discus throw event in London but her position was upgraded to sixth after Russian Darya Pishchalnikova was ...

Philippa Roles was a bronze medallist at the 1997 European Junior Championships Welsh discus thrower Philippa Roles, who represented Great Britain at two Olympic Games, has died, UK Athletics has ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A third Jamaican female discus thrower, Tarasue Barnett, has qualified for the event at the IAAF World Championships in London after she attained the standard at the Tucson Elite ...

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 ...

British champion Kirsty Law aims to make her Olympics debut at Tokyo in 2021 Chucking shoes around the garden has become the new normal for Kirsty Law, Scotland's top discus thrower. And as well as ...

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