Janee’ Kassanavoid likens the hammer throw to poetry. And complete chaos. It’s beautiful and it’s powerful. She loves it, she hates it. Once she begins to spin in the ring, swinging the 8.8-pound ...

At the 2022 World Track and Field Championships, hammer thrower Janee’ Kassanavoid took home a bronze medal, making history as the first Native American woman to win a medal at Worlds. She followed up ...

For the first time ever, the World Athletics Championships are being held on US soil, and American track and field athletes are making history left and right. Take Janee' Kassanavoid, for example, who ...

Janee’ Kassanavoid is believed to be the first Native American woman to win a world track and field championships medal, taking hammer throw bronze in Eugene, Oregon, in July. A member of the Comanche ...

She took the podium to accept her bronze medal in a familiar venue, but under unfamiliar, exciting, and historic circumstances. Never could Janee' Kassanavoid have dreamed this exact dream, yet it was ...

WACO, Texas – Senior Janee' Kassanavoid secured her second-consecutive Big 12 Outdoor women's hammer throw title on Friday, throwing a school record 68.21m/223-09.50 to win the event on day one of the ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Winning the USATF Throws Festival in Tucson with a lifetime best in the women’s hammer, Janee’ Kassanavoid (Kansas City, Missouri/USATF Missouri Valley) earned recognition as the 20th ...

Budapest (AFP) – A tearful Janee' Kassanavoid says it would be "a huge win" for her fellow Native Americans if she were to take hammer world gold in Budapest as it would inspire "the next generation ...

It is not often - make that never - that the hammer throw is considered top of the bill at a major athletics event but this world championships is taking place in Hungary, where hurling a lump of iron ...

Janee´Kassanavoid led the strong United State contingent during the qualifying rounds of the women’s hammer throw at the World Athletics Championships Friday afternoon at Hayward Field. Kassanavoid ...