The Athlete shows the typical basic posture of the body just before the turning movement to eject.
Statuette of a Discus throwing device made of bronze, ca. 500 BC, exhibit of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.
Replica in original size made of ceramic, a high-strength special gypsum, in bronze finish.
Discus throwing is the only modern practice taken directly from antiquity, a discipline of pentathlon.
The weight of the device fluctuated between 1.3 and 4.7 kg. In Olympia, three discs were kept for the competitions. Thrown was thrown with rotation from a pitch. Discus tossing gave off many attractive motifs for the visual arts. For the estimation of the record throw of 28.17 m (between 500 and 480 B. C.), which has been handed down to the athlete Phayllos, the discus weight is missing.