- Al Oerter
Alfred Adolf "Al" Oerter, Jr. (born September 19, 1936) is a former American athlete, four times Olympic Champion in the discus throw. In 2005, he was inducted into the Nassau County Sports Hall of Fame. Born in Astoria, New York, Al Oerter grew up in New Hyde Park and attended Sewanhaka High School. He began his career at the age of 15 when a discus landed at his feet and he threw it back past the crowd of throwers.
- Virgilijus Alekna
Virgilijus Alekna is a famous Lithuanian athlete. He was born on February 13, 1972 in Terpeikiai, near Kupiškis, Lithuania. He won two gold medals in the Summer Olympics, both in the discus throw. The first was in the 2000 and the second in 2004.
- Ian Waltz
Ian Waltz (born 15 April 1977) is an American discus thrower. His personal best distance is 68.91 metres, achieved in May 2006 in Salinas.
- Neelam Jaswant Singh
Neelam Jaswant Singh (born 8 January 1971 in Farmana) is an Indian discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 64.55 metres, achieved at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan. During the 2005 World Championships she tested positive for the banned stimulant pemoline in an in-competition test.
- Seema Antil
Seema Antil (born July 27, 1983) is an Indian discus thrower. Antil originally won the gold medal at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but lost it due to a positive drugs test for pseudoephedrine.As per the rules in force at that time for such an offence, her National Federation issued her a public warning after stripping her of the medal. She won a bronze medal at the next World Junior Championships in 2002. She won the silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, …
- Lars Riedel
Lars Riedel (born June 28, 1967 in Zwickau) is a successful German discus thrower. He ranks sixth in all-time longest discus throw distances with a personal best of 71.50m. Riedel began his discus career in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). He grew up in Thurn which is next to Zwickau. In 1983 he went to join SC Karl-Marx-Stadt.
- Gerd Kanter
Gerd Kanter (born May 6, 1979) is an Estonian discus thrower. He competed at the 2004 Olympics, but didn't reach the final. 2005 was his breakthrough year as he won silver medals at the World Championships and World Athletics Final, took home a victory in the European Cup and won the World University Games. He also threw more than 70 metres for the first time.
- Mac Wilkins
Maurice "Mac" Wilkins (born November 15, 1950) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He competed for the United States in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the discus throw where he won the gold medal. He also won a silver medal at the the 1984 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States again in the Discus after missing the 1980 games due to the American boycott.
- Krishna Poonia
Krishna Poonia is national woman discus throw champion of India. She won bronze medal in 2006 Doha Asian Games. She hails from Gagarwas village in Churu district in Rajasthan in India and represents Indian railways in national tournaments. Krishna Poonia threw the discus to 61.53, her personal best, in the second try and finished behind Aimin Sing of China (63.52) and Ma Xuenjun, also of China (62.43).
- Beatrice Faumuina
Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, ONZM (born October 23, 1974 in Auckland) is a New Zealand discus thrower, a gold medallist at the 1997 World Championships in Athletics. She has represented New Zealand in three Summer Olympics. At the 2004 Summer Olympics she placed 7th in the discus with a throw of 64.45 metres. Early in her career, she was coached by New Zealand sport celebrity Les Mills.
- Casey Malone
Casey Malone (born 6 April 1977) is an American discus thrower. His personal best is 66.58 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Greeley, Colorado.
- Aleksander Tammert
Aleksander Tammert is an Estonian discus thrower. He competed at the 2004 Olympics and originally finished fourth, but as gold medal winner Róbert Fazekas was disqualified Tammert got the bronze medal. A month later he placed third at the World Athletics Final. 2005 was not his lucky year, placing fourth at both the World Championships and the World Athletics Final. Countryfellow Gerd Kanter won silver medals at both these events.
- Aretha Thurmond
Aretha Thurmond, née Hill is an American discus thrower, who's personal best time is 65.86 metres, achieved in March 2004 in Marietta.
- Frantz Kruger
Frantz Kruger (born May 22, 1975 in Kempton Park, South Africa) is a discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2000. He is also a double African champion. His personal best throw of 70.32 metres, achieved in May 2002 in Salon-de-Provence, is the current African record. He is married to Finnish former triple jumper Heli Koivula-Kruger, and received Finnish passport in 2007.
- Scott Martin
Scott Martin (born October 12, 1982 in Melbourne) is an Australian shot putter and discus throw competitor. He rose to prominence in a National Australia Bank advertisement promoting the 2006 Commonwealth Games; in the ad, Martin was shown taking part in a ballet class to improve his discus technique. He won a bronze medal in the men's shot put at the Games, and won gold in the men's discus throw. In addition he is the 2006 Australian Shot Put champion, …
- Jarred Rome
Jarred Rome (born 21 December 1976) is an American discus thrower. His personal best throw is 67.51 metres, achieved in July 2004 in Chula Vista.
- John Powell
John Gates Powell (born June 25, 1947 in San Francisco) is a former American athlete. John Powell set the 1975 world record in the discus throw, his personal best, set later, is 71.26 m in 1984. Powell currently runs several yearly throwing camps with fellow Olympian throwers.
- Ehsan Hadadi
Ehsan Hadadi (born 20 January 1985 in Tehran) is an Iranian discus thrower. The 2004 Asian Junior Champion, he won a gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, becoming the first male Iranian to win a medal at any global athletics competition. In 2005 he won the Asian Championships in Incheon with a personal best throw of 65.25 metres. This is the current Asian record. In December 2006, he added another gold medal to his record, …
- John Godina
John Carl Godina (born May 31, 1972 in Fort Sill, Oklahoma) is an American shot putter, whose record includes three World Championship wins and two Olympic medals. He also competes in discus.
- Franka Dietzsch
Franka Dietzsch (born January 22, 1968 in Wolgast) is a German discus thrower best known for winning gold medals at two World Championships in Athletics. She won the 1998 European Championships and 1999 World Championships, but did not return to the international podium until her win at the 2005 World Championships. Her personal best throw is 69.51 metres, achieved in May 1999 in Wiesbaden. This result ranks her ninth among German discus throwers, behind Gabriele Reinsch, …
- Erik de Bruin
Erik de Bruin (born May 25, 1963 in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland) is a retired discus thrower and shot putter from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. There he ended up in 8th place in the men's shot put competition. The older brother of discus thrower Corrie de Bruin, he was Holland's leading discus thrower and shot putter in the 1980s and early 1990s.
- Romas Ubartas
Romas Ubartas is a former discus thrower from Lithuania who won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR and a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics for Lithuania. His personal best was 70.06m. He also became European champion, in 1986. In the Soviet time he trained at Dynamo in Vilnius.
- Jay Silvester
Jay Silvester (born 27 August,1937) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He competed for the United States in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the discus throw where he won the silver medal.
- Natalya Sadova
Natalya Sadova, née Koptyukh is a Russian discus thrower. She won the gold medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in 2004, as well as a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. She originally won the gold medal at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, but lost it due to a positive drugs test for caffeine. She was later cleared and let off a suspension, …
- Philippa Roles
Philippa Roles (born 1 March 1978) is a Welsh discus thrower. Her personal best throw is 62.89 metres, achieved in June 2003 in Loughborough. This places her third on the British outdoor all-time list, behind Meg Ritchie and Venissa Head.
- Nikolaos Georgantas
Nikolaos Georgantas was a Greek athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw. He competed for a Greece in the 1904 Summer Olympics held in St. Louis, Missouri, in the discus throw where he won the Bronze medal. Two years later in Athens in his home country of Greece he won the golfd medal in the Stone Throw competition in the 1906 Summer Olympics. He added two silvers to this to compete his collection.
- Tamara Press
Tamara Natanovna Press (May 10, 1937 in Kharkiv, Ukraine) is a former Soviet shot putter and discus thrower in the 1960's. She competed for VSS Trud. Together with her younger sister Irina Press who was also a track and field athlete, she was half of the "Press Sisters", who won almost everything that there was to win. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome Tamara won the gold medal in the shot put and the silver medal in the discus.
- Jürgen Schult
Jürgen Schult is a German track and field athlete, who represented East Germany in the 1988 Olympic competition in the discus throw on October 1, 1988, where he won the gold medal. Later in his long sport career he joined the reunified German team. He competed in a second Olympic Games in 1992, getting a silver medal, and the 1999 World Championships, again getting second place.
- John Anderson
John Franklin Anderson (July 4, 1907 - July 11, 1948) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Discus throw. He competed for the United States in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the Discus throw where he won the Gold medal. Anderson graduated from Cornell University in 1929, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.
- Lia Manoliu
Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who competed at a record six Summer Olympics, winning three discus medals. Manoliu not only became the first track and field athlete to compete at six Olympic Games, but she also represented her country with distinction, winning medals on three of the six occasions. Lia started her Olympic odyssey at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where she finished 6th with a throw of 42,64m.
- Anastasia Kelesidou
Anastasia Kelesidou (born November 28, 1972 in Hamburg, Germany) is a retired Greek discus thrower best known for winning silver medals at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. During her career she set seven Greek records in discus throw, the best being 67.70 metres. Her only international victory came at the 1997 Mediterranean Games.
- Rutger Smith
Rutger Smith (born July 9, 1981 in Groningen) is a Dutch athlete competing in shot put and occasionally discus throw. At the 2000 World Junior Championships he won medals in both events, and he competed in both events at the 2004 Olympics. In 2005 he won silver medals in shot put at the European Indoor Championships and World Championships.
- Ekaterini Voggoli
Ekaterini Voggoli (born October 30, 1970 in Larissa) is a retired Greek discus thrower. She is the 2002 European champion and 2003 World Championship bronze medallist. In June 2004 she beat Anastasia Kelesidou's Greek record by 2 centimetres, throwing 67.72 metres in Athens.
- Ilke Wyludda
Ilke Wyludda (born March 28, 1969 in Leipzig) is a former discus thrower from Germany. She set eleven junior records at discus throw and even two at shot put, and became junior world champion. Between 1989 and 1991 she recorded 41 successive wins, only to be beaten by Tzvetanka Khristova at the 1991 World Championships. Wyludda never won the world championships, but she became Olympic champion in 1996.
- Mario Pestano
Mario Pestano (born April 8, 1978 in Tenerife) is a Spanish discus thrower. His personal best throw is 68.26, achieved in July 2, 2007 in Athens.
- Evelin Jahl
Evelin Jahl, née Schlaak is a German former discus thrower, who won two Olympic gold medals as an athlete representing East Germany. In 1976 she won the women's discus throwing event at the Montreal Summer Olympics Bulgaria's Maria Vergova. The Olympic title in 1976 was the beginning of a steep ascent: She defeated world record holder Faina Melnik who was the undisputed favourite to win.
- Rink Babka
Rink Babka (born 23 September,1936) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the Discus throw. He competed for the United States in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, Italy in the Discus throw where he won the Silver medal.
- Lillian Copeland
Lillian Copeland (November 25, 1904 - July 7, 1964) was an American athlete, who excelled in the throwing events. Copeland was born in New York to Polish Jewish immigrants. Her father died when she was young, and her mother remarried and they moved to Los Angeles.
- Micheline Ostermeyer
Micheline Ostermeyer (December 23, 1922 - October 18, 2001) was a French athlete and pianist. Born in Rang-du-Fliers, France, she moved to Tunisia where her family lived. There she learned to play the piano, and played so well that she was sent back to France to attend the Conservatory. After the outbreak of World War II, she moved back to Tunisia, and discovered sports, competing in basketball and athletics. After the war, she started competing in athletics, …
- Ricky Bruch
Björn Rickard ("Ricky") Bruch is a former Swedish athlete (discus) and actor, who grew up in Skåne, and is a long-time resident of Malmö. Bruch was a good athlete, but failed to achieve great success in major international events; his greatest successes were Olympic bronze in 1972 along with silver and bronze at the European Championships in Athletics, but he also managed to equal the world record in 1972 with a throw of 68.40 metres.