(n.) A quoit; a circular plate of some heavy material intended to be pitched or hurled as a trial of strength and skill.
(n.) The exercise with the discus.
(n.) A disk. See Disk.
Example Sentences:
(1) So much so that the Olympic discus champion Robert Harting even withdrew from consideration.
(2) Drama in the woman's discus Perkovic leads after throwing a Croatian record of 69.11m and Pishchalnik, the pre-competition is down in fifth.
(3) But his achievements in that short period are so staggering as to merit such predictions having already broken a senior British record, a world-age record, won an Under-23 European gold medal and with a throw of 67.63m earned himself a fourth-place ranking amid the world's best discus throwers this season.
(4) He might be full of blunt confidence but even Okoye seems mildly stunned by the distance he has travelled from an Olympic final in the discus last summer to the brink of another transformation.
(5) The implications of pore diameter (Sephadex- and Sepharose derivatives), of purity of the PG, of protein content of the PG-carrier-complexes as well as the presence of substrate during the coupling reaction, are discused in relation to the relative and specific activity of the bound protein and to the efficiency of the coupling reaction.
(6) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
(7) X-ray diffraction examinations were performed on different cartilages (epiphysis, joint, rib, nose-cartilage and discus intervertebralis) of 10 young and 10 old rats.
(8) A perforation of the discus triangularis was confirmed by arthrography, and the disc removed.
(9) A case of acute rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm is presented mimicking the symptoms of a discus hernia syndrome and paraplegia.
(10) Obviously he's disappointed I'm not throwing the discus this year but he's happy I'm doing well."
(11) It was discused about immunological problems in pernicious anemia which are very important and required continued investigations.
(12) Mr Jones told the Guardian he was under "restriction" and could not discus his dealings with the Abachas.
(13) The case of an adolescent is presented, who had two operations because of twice slipped discus in one year.
(14) The reliability and validity of the Dyskinesia Identification System: Condensed User Scale (DISCUS) are presented for mentally ill (n = 2,822) and mentally retarded (n = 4,649) populations, as are DISCUS item means and standard deviations.
(15) The author discuses the type of inervation of m. sphincter pylori as well as the vesicular content of axons.in view of the eventual functional significance.
(16) After deferring an offer from Oxford University to study law, he began to train seriously for the discus less than two years before the London Olympics .
(17) After all that success on Saturday evening, there have been a string of disappointing British performances on Monday and Tuesday, culminating in Lawrence Okoye's last-place finish in the men's discus.
(18) We discuse some of the implications of the use of this measure of distance and compare it to others which have been proposed.
(19) Real Eritreans love their country.” A sticker with the words “I love Eritrea” adorns a locker in the offices of the government-backed National Union of Eritrean Youth and Students , whose courtyard has a full-size replica of the classical statue Discus-thrower (Discobolus).
(20) This is done by considering the two stages of the throw--the launch (the movements in the circle) and the discus flight.
Pentathlon
Definition:
(n.) A fivefold athletic performance peculiar to the great national games of the Greeks, including leaping, foot racing, wrestling, throwing the discus, and throwing the spear.
Example Sentences:
(1) For example, pentathlon and basketball sportsmen exhibit in their kinesthetic analyser the greatest number of minimum increases of sensation, namely 30.2 and 21.4 respectively, while those not engaged in any sport, 15.0.
(2) The 22-year-old is the current world No1 in heptathlon and took pentathlon gold at the European Indoor Championships in March .
(3) Oral application of elevated dosages of vitamin B1, B6 and B12 have been found to improve target shooting in marksmen, recruited from a local pentathlon association, in two different studies.
(4) The equivalent figure for canoeing is 45,700 while the number for modern pentathlon is recorded as an "insufficient sample size".
(5) If anyone doubts the scale of Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s ambitions, then they should have been in the mixed zone moments after she had won her first senior championship gold at the European Indoor Championships, broken Jessica Ennis-Hill’s British pentathlon record, and become only the second athlete to break the 5,000 points barrier.
(6) Just five months later she set a personal best in the pentathlon, nine points off the legendary Carolina Kluft's junior record.
(7) 10.17pm BST The crowd are singing along to the Beatles' All You Need Is Love There's delay in the pentathlon medal ceremony because of protests and counter-protests.
(8) I haven’t done the pentathlon since 2012 so I’m excited to be back but I know it won’t be easy and there’s going to be stiff competition.
(9) Closest correlation has been recorded among pentathlon sportmen, volley-ballers and fencers.
(10) Vd and average swimming velocities in a modern pentathlon swimming race (300 m free-style) were also correlated (n = 9, r = 0.91), thus suggesting that AT is critical in determining the speed in middle-distance swimming events.
(11) Nadine Broersen, from the Netherlands, is the world indoor champion in the pentathlon and she’ll be there but I’m in good form.” Ennis-Hill has stated that, when she matures fully, Johnson-Thompson will be a better heptathlete than even her.
(12) This study compares the effects of quiet breathing on the heart structure and function of pentathlon athletes (n = 11) and a less-conditioned control group (n = 12).
(13) UK Sport is currently spending more than £20m to fund elite canoeing during the Rio cycle, with the equivalent figure almost £7m for modern pentathlon.
(14) In the next few hours, 80,000 people here – as well as billions worldwide – will watch Jess Ennis become an Olympic pentathlon gold medallist.
(15) Her furtive preference for football in Liverpool ahead of ballet in London eventually led her to athletics and the point where, this week, she enters the European indoor championships as the clear favourite for the pentathlon .
(16) Johnson-Thompson is ranked world No1 in both the pentathlon and outdoors in the heptathlon – where, over the next 18 months, her contests with Jessica Ennis-Hill , the returning Olympic champion, should produce some gripping battles.
(17) Bronze, 1992 Barcelona Olympics Karen Roberts – Bronze, World Judo Championship 1999 Nicola Fairbrother – Silver, 1992 Barcelona Olympics LUGE Mark Hatton – Winter Olympian MODERN PENTATHLON Kate Allenby – Bronze, 2000 Sydney Olympics ROWING Miriam Batten – Silver, 2000 Sydney Olympics Annabel Eyres – Olympian, 1992 Barcelona Olympics Guin Batten – Silver, 2000 Sydney Olympics Frances Houghton – Two-time Silver, 2008 Beijing Olympics, 2004 Athens Olympics Anna Bebington - Bronze, 2008 Beijing Olympics.
(18) Within this elite group the most successful performers were stronger and possessed a greater lean body weight which together suggest the importance of muscle mass for success in the pentathlon.