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unusual facts about Discus throw



1906 Intercalated Games

Martin Sheridan of the Irish American Athletic Club, competing for the U.S. team, won gold in the 16-pound Shot put and the Freestyle Discus throw and silver in the Standing high jump, Standing long jump and Stone throw.

Adewale Olukoju

Adewale Olukoju (born July 27, 1968 in Zaria, Kaduna State) is a Nigerian athlete who competed in discus throw and shot put.

Alwin Wagner

Alwin Josef Wagner (born 11 August 1950 in Melsungen, Hessen) is a West German discus thrower and weight lifter, who was affiliated with University Sportclub Mainz (USC Mainz).

Andressa de Morais

Andressa Oliveira de Morais (born December 21, 1990 in João Pessoa) is a Brazilian athlete specializing in the discus throw.

Anja Möllenbeck

Anja Möllenbeck (born Anja Gündler on 18 March 1972 in Frankenberg, Saxony) is a retired German discus thrower, whose personal best throw is 64.63 metres, achieved in May 1998 in Obersuhl.

Armin Lemme

Armin Lemme (born October 28, 1955 in Packebusch, Saxony-Anhalt) is a former track and field athlete from East Germany who competed in the men's discus throw event at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's shot put

Brian Oldfield from the United States was the first person to use a new technique, a technique that is similar to the discus throwing style.

Casey Malone

Casey Malone (born 6 April 1977 in Wheat Ridge, Colorado) is an American discus thrower.

Centennial Stadium

The stadium features a 400m synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Elisângela Adriano

Elisângela Maria Adriano (born July 27, 1972), is a Brazilian shot putter and discus thrower, whose personal best put is 19.30 metres, achieved in July 2001 in Tunja.

Jürgen Schult

Jürgen Schult (born May 11, 1960 in Amt Neuhaus, now in Niedersachsen) is a former German track and field athlete and the current world record holder in the discus throw since 1986, currently the longest standing record in men's track and field.

Koji Murofushi

Koji Murofushi comes from a hammer throwing family, as his father Shigenobu Murofushi is a former Olympian and held the Japanese record for 23 years until his son broke it, and his sister, Yuka Murofushi, throws both hammer and discus.

Marco Bucci

In 1984 he was forced to forfeit prior to the qualification of the discus throw at the 1984 Summer Olympics because of a stretched pectoralis muscle strain.

Neelam Jaswant Singh

Neelam Jaswant Singh (born 8 January 1971 in Farmana) is an Indian discus thrower.

Percy Perry Stadium

Percy Perry Stadium features a 400m polyflex synthetic rubberized track surface, as well as separate areas for long jump/triple jump, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, shot put, and javelin.

Rosemary Payne

Christine Rosemary Payne (born Christine Rosemary Charters, 19 May 1933 in Kelso, Scottish Borders, Scotland) is a female discus thrower, who represented Great Britain at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

S4C Sport

Lion Colin Charvis depicted as Atlas with the world on his shoulders, Chris Wyatt struck the famous discus pose, while presenter Amanda Protheroe Thomas recreated a scene form Botticelli’s painting, The Birth of Venus (1486).

Yuriy Dumchev

Yuriy Dumchev (born 5 August 1958) is a retired track and field athlete from the Soviet Union, who set the world record in the men's discus throw on 29 May 1983 with a distance of 71.86 metres.

Zena Cole

Zena Cole is an American Paralympic discus thrower who won a silver medal at the 2011 IPC World Championships and the same year won gold one at the Parapan American Games.


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1906 Michigan Wolverines football team

He broke world records in the discus throw and high hurdles and won two medals in the 1908 Summer Olympics – a silver medal in the 110 meter hurdles and a bronze medal in the shot put.

Alicia Thompson

She was raised in Big Lake, Texas and attended high school at Reagan County High School where she excelled in basketball, shot put and discus throw.

Andreas Seelig

Seelig also won the men's discus throw event (63.52 m) at the Military World Games in 1999 (Zagreb).

Dick Drescher

Drescher set his personal best in the discus throw event (63.90 metres) at the Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut on April 24, 1976.

Estonia at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics

The team includes reigning Olympic discus throw champion Gerd Kanter and European Indoor champions Mikk Pahapill and Ksenija Balta.

Ingrid Lotz

Ingrid Lotz (born March 11, 1934 in Malliß near Ludwigslust) is an East German athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw event.

Isabelle Devaluez

Devaluez set her personal best in the women's discus throw event (62.02 metres) on 15 June 1996 in La Garde.

Johan Trandem

His personal best discus throw was 44.60 metres, achieved in September 1928 in Skotterud.

Jolan

Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (born 1939), Hungarian athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw event

Karksi-Nuia

Margus Hunt, defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals, former discus thrower and the former world junior record holder in discus throw.

Simoné du Toit

In the discus throw she has 53.07 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Roodepoort.

Taavi Peetre

His personal best in discus throw was 60.84 m, achieved in April 2010 in Denton, Texas, USA.

Ulf Timmermann

His coach was Mr Werner Goldmann who is currently coaching shot put and discus throw in Berlin.