Athletics At The 1999 Pan American Games – Men's Discus Throw
The men's discus throw event at the 1999 Pan American Games was held on July 28. Results References {{DEFAULTSORT:Discus Athletics at the 1999 Pan American Games 1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

Discus Throw
The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disk (mathematics), disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an classical antiquity, ancient sport, as demonstrated by the fifth-century-BC Myron statue ''Discobolus''. Although not part of the current pentathlon, it was one of the events of the Ancient Olympic pentathlon, ancient Greek pentathlon, which can be dated back to at least 708 BC, and it is part of the modern decathlon. History The sport of throwing the discus traces back to it being an event in the Ancient Olympic Games, original Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. The discus as a sport was resurrected in Magdeburg, Germany, by gymnastics teacher Christian Georg Kohlrausch and his students in the 1870s. Organized men's competition was resumed in the late 19th century, and has been a part of the modern Summer Olympic Games since the first modern competition, ...
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Athletics At The 1999 Pan American Games
The athletics competition at the 1999 Pan American Games was held at University Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Two new events were introduced for women: pole vault and hammer throw. In addition the 20 km road walk replaced the 10,000 m track walk. Men's results Track Field Women's results Track Field Medal table Participating nations See also *1999 in athletics (track and field) ReferencesFull resultsat ''athletics.ca'' (Internet Archive)GBR Athletics {{Pan American Games Athletics 1999 Pan American Games Events at the 1999 Pan American Games 1999 Pan American Games The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and ...

Anthony Washington
Anthony Washington (born January 16, 1966, in Glasgow, Montana) is an American former discus thrower, who competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics. At the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Washington won the gold medal in discus throw. His personal bests are 71.14 m in discus and 59.58 m in hammer throw. He is a four-time national champion in the men's discus event. He once appeared in a Snickers Snickers is a chocolate bar made by the American company Mars, Incorporated, consisting of nougat topped with caramel and peanuts that is encased in milk chocolate. The annual global sales of Snickers was over $3 billion . In the United Ki ...br>Olympics candy bar commercial1992 Snickers Olympics Commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3XQwRvICak International competitions References * ;Notes 1966 births Living people People from Glasgow, Montana Track and field athletes from Montana American male discus throwers Olympic track and f ...
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Alexis Elizalde
Alexis Elizalde Estévez (born September 19, 1967, in Havana) is a Cuban retired discus thrower. His personal best throw is , which he achieved in August 1998 at the Central American and Caribbean Games. He represented his country twice at the Summer Olympics, in 1996 and 2000, and was a three-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics (1993, 1995 and 1997). Elizalde's highest honour was a gold medal at the 1993 Summer Universiade. He was twice a silver medallist at the Pan American Games (1995 and 1999) and also won two Central American and Caribbean Games titles during his career. Among his other major medals was a silver at the 1994 IAAF World Cup and a bronze medal at the 1991 Summer Universiade __NOTOC__ The 1991 Summer Universiade, officially known as the XVI Summer Universiade and generally referred to as the World Student Games, were held in Sheffield, England from 14 to 25 July 1991. The Games were the largest sporting event to be ho .... Internatio ...
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Jason Tunks
Jason Tunks (born May 7, 1975 in London, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian former discus thrower who represented Canada in the Olympics three times. He is the holder of Canadian National Record at . Tunks was inducted into the London (Ontario) Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2014, and the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2017. Personal Bests * Discus throw - 67.88m (222-8) - ACU, Abilene, Texas, May 14, 1998 - National Record * Shot put - Outdoor: 19.06m (62' 6½'') - Austin, Texas, April 5, 1997 Indoor: 18.97m (62' 3'') - Blacksburg, Virginia, February 23, 2001 Major events Olympics Atlanta 1996 - 33rd - 55.84 m (183.20 ft) Sydney 2000 - 6th - 65.80 m (215.88 ft) Athens 2004 - 15th - 61.21 m (200.82 ft) IAAF World Championships in Athletics 1997 World Championships in Athletics at Athens - 9th - 62.30 m (204.40 ft) 1999 World Championships in Athletics at Seville - 20th - 60.20 m (1 ...
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Frank Casañas
Yennifer Frank Casañas Hernández (born 18 October 1978) is a Spanish discus thrower. He represented Cuba until May 2008, then Spain. Career In the 2008 Olympic Games he competed for Spain, reaching the fifth position in the final. His personal best throw is 67.91 metres, which he achieved in June 2008 in Castellón de la Plana, Castellón. Achievements References External links

* * * * 1978 births Living people Cuban male discus throwers Spanish male discus throwers Spanish people of Cuban descent Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2003 Pan American Games Olympic athletes for Cuba Olympic athletes for Spain Pan American Games medal ...
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Doug Reynolds (athlete)
Doug Reynolds is the name of * Doug Reynolds (footballer) (born 1933), Australian rules footballer * Doug Reynolds (athlete) (born 1975), American discus thrower * Doug Reynolds (politician) Douglas Vernon Reynolds (born February 8, 1976 in Huntington, West Virginia) is an American politician, businessman, and a former Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates representing District 17 from January 12, 2013, to Janua ...

Marcelo Pugliese
Marcelo Adrián Pugliese (born 2 September 1968 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine discus thrower. His personal best throw is 64.23 metres, achieved in April 2002 in Mar del Plata. He became South American champion in 1999, 2001 and 2003. He also competed at the Olympic Games in 1996, 2000 and 2004 as well as the World Championships in 1997 and 2001 without qualifying for the final round. In March 2007 Pugliese was found guilty of stanozolol doping. The sample was delivered on 27 May 2006 in an in-competition test. He received a suspension from July 2006 to July 2008. Achievements See also *List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recreational drugs or ... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pugliese, Marcelo 1968 birth ...
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Julio Piñero
Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to: * Julio (given name) * Julio (surname) * Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation album by Julio Iglesias *Julio, a character in '' Romiette and Julio'' by Sharon M. Draper Other * Don Julio, a brand of tequila produced in Mexico * Hurricane Julio, a list of storms named Julio * Jules * ''Julie-O'', musical work for solo cello by Mark Summer * Julio 204 or JULIO 204, one of the first graffiti writers in New York City *Julio-Claudian dynasty, the first five Roman Emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula (also known as Gaius), Claudius, and Nero * Julius (other) The gens Julia (''gēns Iūlia'', ) was one of the most prominent patrician families in ancient Rome. Members of the gens attained the highest dignities of the state in the earliest times of the Republic. The first of the family to obtain the c ...< ...
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Jason Gervais
Jason Gervais (born 18 January 1976) is a Canadian athlete. He competed in the men's discus throw at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * 1976 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Canadian male discus throwers Olympic track and field athletes for Canada Sportspeople from Timmins Canadian Track and Field Championships winners {{Canada-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Kevin Brown (athlete)
Kevin Dave Brown (born 1964) is a former discus athlete who competed for England and Jamaica. Athletics career Brown was English national champion after winning the 1994 AAA Championships. He represented England in the discus event, at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Eight years later he represented Jamaica in the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Truck pulling In 2020, Brown broke a world record in truck pulling Truck and tractor pulling, also known as power pulling, is a form of a motorsport competition in which antique or modified tractors pull a heavy drag or sled along an , track, with the winner being the tractor that pulls the drag the farthe ..., dragging a two-ton Range Rover 69 metres in 45.58 seconds. He made the attempt in the memory of a friend who had died of cancer. References External links *Kevin Brownstats at Record Holders Republic, where he is operations directorKevin Brown - World Record Attempt; 69M Vehicle Pull ...
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Alfredo Romero (athlete)
Alfredo Romero (born March 5, 1972) is a Puerto Rican track and field athlete specializing in the discus throw. He won multiple medals on regional level. His personal best of 56.20 metres (2002) was the national record until 2012. Competition record References 1972 births Living people Puerto Rican male discus throwers Athletes (track and field) at the 1999 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2011 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games silver medalists for Puerto Rico Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Puerto Rico Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games Competitors at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in athletics Pan American Games competitors for Puerto Rico 20th-century Puerto Rican people {{P ...
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