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Valarie Carolyn Allman (born February 23, 1995) is an American track and field athlete specializing in the discus throw. [5] She is a two time Olympic champion, having won the gold medal at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and 2024 Paris Olympics. Allman earned bronze at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, which made her the first American woman to ...
The men's discus throw has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896 (one of two throws events at the first Olympics, alongside the shot put). The women's event was first contested at the 1928 Olympics , being one of the five athletics events in the inaugural Olympic women's programme.
Alfred Oerter Jr. (/ ˈ ɔːr t ər /; September 19, 1936 – October 1, 2007) was an American athlete and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw.He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympic Games.
In a short span Monday night, Allman won her second straight Olympic title in the discus throw, while Kendricks captured silver in a pole vault competition that featured Sweden's Armand “Mondo” Duplantis breaking his own world record. The medals from Allman and Kendricks, 31, gave the U.S. 11 so far in the meet, including three golds.
800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. ... unprecedented path to double Olympic gold might spark a dance-to-discus pipeline. ... blossomed into the world’s best discus thrower, she ...
Olympic gold medalist Valarie Allman won the women's discus at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials on Thursday at Hayward Field. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail. Sign in.
At the 2024 U.S. Track and Field championships, Brown threw the discus 65.79 meters on his final throw. He had to wait for other competitors’ final throws before claiming third place and a spot ...
The event was won by Al Oerter of the United States, the nation's second consecutive and ninth overall victory in the men's discus throw. It was the first of four straight gold medals for Oerter. The United States earned its second medal sweep in the event (after 1908), as Fortune Gordien took silver and Des Koch took bronze. Gordien became the ...