Discus throw

Athletics Discus throw
German 2012 Olympic champion Robert Harting.
World records
Men	Mykolas Alekna (LTU) 74.35 m (243 ft 11 in) (2024)
Women	Gabriele Reinsch (GDR) 76.80 m (251 ft 11 in) (1988)
Olympic records
Men	Virgilijus Alekna (LTU) 69.89 m (229 ft 3 in) (2004)
Women	Martina Hellmann (GDR) 72.30 m (237 ft 2 in) (1988)
World Championship records
Men	Daniel Ståhl (SWE) 71.46 m (234 ft 5 in) (2023)
Women	Martina Hellmann  (GDR) 71.62 m (234 ft 11 in) (1987)

The discus throw (pronunciation^ⓘ), also known as disc throw, is a track and field sport in which the participant athlete throws an oblate spheroid weight — called a discus — in an attempt to mark a farther distance than other competitors. It is an ancient sport, as demonstrated by the fifth-century-BC Myron statue Discobolus. Although not part of the current pentathlon, it was one of the events of the ancient Greek pentathlon, which can be dated back to at least 708 BC,^[1] and it is part of the modern decathlon.