Solon discus thrower Ben Kampman wanted to cap off his high school track and field career as a state champion. On Thursday, he achieved his dream and became the first boys discus thrower to win a ...

Solon’s Ben Kampman does a back flip as he celebrates winning the 3A discus during the 2024 Iowa High School State Track & Field Championships at Drake Stadium in Des Moines, Iowa, on Thursday, May 16 ...

Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

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 ...

Solon’s Ben Kampman knows what it takes to compete on the big stage in high school sports. The fourth-year Spartan has competed in Class 3A state football, the Drake Relays and the state boys track ...

EUGENE, ORE. - On Thursday, Madeleine Fey of the Kansas Track & Field Team, won the USATF U20 National Championship in the Women's Discus. "Maddie did a great job of staying focused and competing," ...

Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men's discus, the oldest world record in men's track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...

ST. MICHAEL — Dylan Gross made it a sweep. After winning the shot put state title Thursday, the Brainerd senior finished his career with a state title in the discus at the Class 3A State Finals ...

(CNN) — 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 ...