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.

Japanese Olympic women's javelin champion Haruka Kitaguchi has started training with Czech javelin legend Jan Zelezny, she said in an Instagram post on Friday. "After our training camp in South Africa ...

Javelin throw world champion Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage believes he can go the distance to an Olympic milestone. This he said ...

Neeraj Chopra has been ruled out of the 2026 Asian Games after suffering an ankle ligament tear during training. The Olympic champion was subsequently spotted using a wheelchair, sparking concern ...

Two key mentors of Pakistan's Olympics gold medalist javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem have blamed lack of training and negligence for his flop show in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, urging the ...

TDK will debut its new sensor-powered Smart Javelin at the World Athletics Ultimate Championship in Budapest. View on euronews ...

The seed Neeraj Chopra planted in 2021 is bearing fruit across the subcontinent. Could cricket be a small part of the reason too? That hot, humid night in Tokyo, standing in an eerily empty Olympic ...

After booking his place in the Men's Javelin Throw final at the Commonwealth Games 2026 with a best effort of 79 metres, India's Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra admitted the cold and swirling winds ...