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Agnès Teppe
Agnès Teppe (born 4 May 1968 in Bourg-en-Bresse) is a former French athlete, who specialised in the discus throw. She won two French national championship titles in the discus: in 1990 and 1994. She twice improved the French discus record throwing in 1991 and in 1992. Bronze medalist at the 1991 Mediterranean Games, in Athens, she won the 1989 Games of La Francophonie and obtained the silver medal in those games in 2005. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2016-02-20. She is the older sister of Nathalie Teppe, a specialist in the . National titles * |
Discus Throw The discus throw (), also known as disc throw, is a track and field event in which an athlete throws a heavy disc—called a discus—in an attempt to mark a farther distance than their competitors. It is an 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 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 original Olympic Games of Ancient Greece. The discus as a sport was resurrected in Magdeburg, Germany, by gymnastics teacher Christian Georg Kohlrausch and his student |
