Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...
Mac Wilkins stepped into the discus ring that afternoon in a state of bewilderment. A few minutes earlier, Craig Caudill, a hurdler and teammate of Wilkins on the Pacific Coast Club, had been shagging ...
He has set two world records, won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics, twice climbed the podium at the World Championships and is the youngest athlete ever to throw the discus 70 meters. He even has ...
(CNN) — Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna broke a world record that had stood for four decades at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational meeting in Ramona on Sunday. The Lithuanian’s ...
RAMONA, Okla. — Mykolas Alekna surpassed his world record in the discus twice on Sunday. The Lithuanian star threw a discus 247 feet, 9 inches (75.56 meters) at the Oklahoma Throws Series World ...
Discus records were smashed at the Continental Tour Bronze in Oklahoma but the event and the achievements were not without controversy. A Swedish commentator felt “weather doping” was at play as the ...