All implements are not the same and they have benefited a lot from the technology through the years. The Ancient Greeks were throwing stone discus…
The Croatian athlete is without doubt the number 1 in the world since nearly 10 years with an incredible palmares including 2 olympic titles ,…
In this chapter , we are going to collect diverse documents (PDF or videos) related to the biomechanics of the discus throw . This include…
In this chapter , we are going to collect diverse documents (PDF or videos) which we found interesting to share with people interested by the…
L'Estonien Gerd KANTER a marqué le disque mondial du début des années 2000 avec un record personnel de 73,38m en 2006 qui est toujours la…
The Swedish thrower is the actual world number 1 of the event for the men. Of course many people will say : ''Well this is…
On 1st august Valarie Allman became the first American female thrower to break the symbolic 70m line . The following documents will show you that…
68.75m at 21 years , best ever U23 world all time performance (beating the former 68.60m performance by Wolfgang SCHMIDT in 1976) and here is…
This 9 pages photo sequence document is comparing the techniques of 6 world elite discus throwers in the same competition at Hamilton (NZL) 15 February…
The German Wolfgang SCHMIDT has certainly a spot among the ''big names'' of the event. He is still considered by many coaches (whom I belong)…
That was so close to an Olympic Gold medal for the Iranian thrower Ehsan HADDADI when he got his discus close to the 70m line…
A good delivery will allow the thrower to transfer all the forces he has created during the spin and tension of his body into the…
