The birth of competitive throwing The javelin throw gained prominence in ancient Greece, becoming a key event in the Olympic Games around 708 BC as part of the pentathlon. Athletes competed not ...

Chari Hawkins US Heptathlete in the Paris Olympics had disaster strike day one on her event. She failed to clear the high ...

Everybody was calling out my name and throwing their hats in the air …” The victory was euphoric to the Greeks and University ...

The Olympic Games began over 2,700 years ago in Olympia, in south west Greece. Every four years ... that required a lot of space, like the javelin, discus and running. Before the games began ...

PARIS--Haruka Kitaguchi became the first female athlete from Japan to capture an Olympic gold medal in track and field events except for marathon when she won the javelin throw at the Paris Games.

Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem will play final of the Javelin Throw event tonight in ongoing Paris Olympics 2024. The event will start at twenty five minutes past eleven at night. Meanwhile, United States ...

Leonidas of Rhodes is our guide to the Olympic Games, as held in Ancient Greece. Running. Jumping. Throwing ... iron or stone as far as they can. And javelin: athletes hurl a wooden spear as ...

PARIS--Haruka Kitaguchi won the women's javelin on Saturday with her first throw of 65.80 metres to earn Japan's first gold medal in the event. South Africa's Jo-Ane van Dyk and Czech Republic's ...

Lucknow: Star Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra ... “Nothing was wrong, everything was right. The throw was also good. Getting a silver (medal) in the Olympics is also not a small thing.

Gold eluded defending champion Neeraj Chopra as he signed off with a silver in the Olympics men's javelin throw event, while Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem bossed the field with a new Games record of 92 ...