Seema Punia, former Asian Games gold-medalist, receives a 16-month ban for a doping offense. This marks her third violation, with previous infractions including one during her junior years. Punia's ...

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 ...

The women’s shot put and discus are the focus as we take an event-by-event look back at the Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games aren’t renowned for innovation and the first shot and discus was ...

Discus thrower Seema Antil won the Asian Games gold in 2014, with an effort of 61.03m, having won the bronze in 2002, and ...

Reigning African Games and African Championships champion, Chioma Onyekwere, saved her best for the last major competition of the year to make history as the first Nigerian woman to win the ...

The discus throw event has been included in every modern Olympics since its inaugural 1896 edition held in Athens (where Robert Garrett representing the United States won the gold medal), and can be ...

Former Asian Games gold medallist Seema Punia has been banned for 16 months after failing a dope test, as NADA announces ...

Vikas Gowda won India's ninth medal from athletics at the 17th Asian Games, claiming silver in the men's discus throw final at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium on Tuesday. Vikas Gowda won India's ninth ...

It's the turn of the men's discus as we look event-by-event at the history of the the Commonwealth Games Two days after winning gold in the shot, Harry Hart won a second gold in Hamilton in 1930 as he ...

Croatia's reigning world and Olympic champion Sandra Perković retained her Mediterranean Games discus title with 66.46 metres, more than six metres clear of her nearest rival Liliana Ca of Portugal ...

Kaur, 25, who had also won gold in the 2019 edition of the championships, dramatically heaved the discus to 65.06m in her first throw to the surprise of the sizeable crowd at the NIS here. This ...

Kent State alum Reggie Jagers III won gold in the men’s discus after recording a winning toss of 61.24 meters Monday at the World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan. Jagers sat in fourth before ...