ALLEN PARK – Happy birthday, Teegan. Monroe High senior Teegan Simmons woke up Sunday to a special greeting on his birthday. Joel Reed, who coaches the shot-put and discus throwers for Monroe’s track ...

SAINT-DENIS, France — Don't look now, but Jamaica, that Caribbean island known for producing elite sprinters such as Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, is now a field-event power. Former ...

Saint-Denis, France – Razorback Rojé Stona broke the Olympic discus record in the fourth round of competition at Stade de France with an impressive throw of 229 feet, 8 inches (70.00) and it delivered ...

DES MOINES — Winning a state championship is hard. Defending a state title can be even harder. Unless you're Delilah Subsin, who clinched her second straight win in the Class 4A girls discus throw on ...

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 ...

BATTLE CREEK - When Alex Lutgring was in middle school, he happened to look up at the wall in the Pennfield High School gym at the track records listed there and saw a name he recognized. "Yeah, I saw ...

In the final week of the Olympics in Paris, the mood among Jamaicans has been rather subdued. Many have expressed disappointment and frustration, as the expected medal tally did not materialise — on ...

Olympic track and field athletes, including world record-setting discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, are competing in Paris this week. Alekna’s journey included a stop in Ramona, Oklahoma, where he set the ...

ST. MICHAEL, Minn. — Ella Theobald knew she was the favorite. But she did her best not to dwell on that. Well, the favorite in the Class 2A state track and field meet discus throw lived up to that, ...

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 ...