Tattoos depicting warriors, superheroes, lions and the Olympic rings were among the motivational motifs inked onto some of the athletes competing at the World Indoor Championships in Nanjing ...

Chase Jackson improved her own American record in the shot put by throwing 20.95 meters (68 feet, 8 3/4 inches) at the Iron ...

Ryan Crouser of the U.S. competes in the men's shot put final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Olympic Stadium Aug. 5, 2021, in Tokyo.

The U.S. shot putter won his third consecutive Olympic gold medal with a throw of 75 feet, 1¾ inches. He’s the only shot put thrower to win three Olympic gold medals in the event.

Entering this year’s Olympic trials, the men’s shot put was considered one of the most competitive events. It lived up to the hype. The top five finishers in the men’s shot put all threw ...

PARIS, France — Oregon-born shot putter Ryan Crouser has qualified for his third straight Olympic shot put finals after a throw of 21.49 meters on Friday. Crouser is the two-time reigning gold ...

He’s so good, another exceptional shot put talent might end his career never winning Olympic gold. Joe Kovacs is as good as they come. He won the silver in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2020.

Olympic gold medalist Ryan Crouser showed off the difference between the hand he uses for shot put and the one he doesn’t in an Aug. 5 interview, noting that one is much larger than the other ...

American Ryan Crouser has turned the shot put into a science. As he goes for his third Olympic gold in a row, he keeps tweaking ideas of rotation, radius and speed and utilizes computer mechanics.