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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