You can dedicate your life to the sport, but, if you are under six feet tall and weigh less than two hundred pounds, you are never going to throw the discus seventy metres.

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Greaves was also in good form, taking gold in the F46 discus with a best throw of 53.05m, more than six metres ahead of the rest of the field.

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The first final of the evening session saw Croatia's Sandra Perkovic earn glory in the discus with a throw of 64.67m.

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However, the biggest cheer of the night at an electric Olympic Stadium was reserved for Germany's Robert Harting, who dramatically won the men's discus gold with his sixth and final throw of 69.43 meters.

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Claire Williams finished fifth in the women's F13 discus, but the 16-year-old threw 35.26m - her second best throw of all time.

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