This guide breaks down the official competition format for Olympic track and field, detailing every step from qualification ...

Most track and field events feature heats or some other form of qualifying ahead of the event final. This includes all races between 100m and 5,000m, jumping events and throwing events. The top three ...

Young Samoan athlete Makisig Laban finished seventh in the men's discus throw final at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games on ...

Mykolas Alekna is the first man to throw over 75m in the discus. Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP via Getty Images In a sport written about in ancient Greek literature, no one has thrown a discus as far as ...