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Tausaga extends her best by four metres to win discus gold

Updated on: 24 August,2023 08:21 AM IST  |  Budapest
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“I was like, I don’t know how to contain this emotion.”

Tausaga extends her best by four metres to win discus gold

USA’s Laulauga Tausaga celebrates after winning the final in Budapest on Tuesday. Pic/AFP

Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than four metres (13 feet) at world championships to win the title, she stunned the crowd—and herself. “I just screamed,” Tausaga said about the throw that made her the first American woman to win a world gold medal in discus. “I was like, I don’t know how to contain this emotion.”


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Tausaga took the title in Budapest with a fifth-round throw of 69.49 metres (228 feet), beating her old mark by a whopping 4.03 metres. That throw vaulted her past her teammate and world leader Valarie Allman for a first-place finish she hadn’t seen coming. “I had such a rough beginning to my season and, you know, I didn’t think I was gonna be able to come out of it,” the 25-year-old Tausaga said. “I’m just proud, very, very proud.”


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