Mkyolas Alekna, son of Virgijilius Alekna, continues the household custom of nice discus throwers.
In Ramona, Oklahoma, on the Oklahoma Throw Sequence World Invitational on April 13, the big Lithuanian turns into the primary man over 75 meters, throwing 75.56 m, or 249 ft, 10.8 inches! What an unlimited throw!
In Alekna’s household, there at the moment are two of the highest discus throws ever: Mykolas Alenka’s 75.56m and his father, Virgiliijus Alekna, with a wonderful 73.88m from means again in 2000!
Bear in mind, final 12 months, on April 14, 2024, additionally in Ramona, Oklahoma, Mykolos Alekna broke the oldest world report in observe and subject, the 74.08m set by the one and solely Jurgen Schult in 1986, when he was throwing for East Germany.
Heads up for Matt Denny of Australia, who threw 74.78m and simply broke his three-day-old Aussie report (74.25m), with USA Sam Mattis at 71.27m to complete third!
The Males’s discus had 5 males over 70 meters and 7 past 69 meters!
And bear in mind (story arising), Valarie Allman rewrote the North American and US data together with her 73.52m in Ramona on Saturday!
Mykolas is just 22! And what a tremendous stage of discus throwers in our trendy period!
Benefit from the stat geek stuff from our associates at World Athletics!
Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna improved his personal discus world report by greater than a metre with a sensational 75.56m* throw on the Oklahoma Throws Sequence World Invitational, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze assembly, in Ramona on Sunday (13).
Again on the assembly the place he set his first world report of 74.35m final 12 months, the Olympic silver medallist twice improved that mark – first setting a world report of 74.89m together with his opening throw after which enhancing to 75.56m within the fourth spherical.
Australia’s Matt Denny, who threw 74.25m in Ramona on Thursday (10), additionally surpassed Alekna’s earlier world report by launching the discus at 74.78m.
In a contest of report depth, 5 athletes surpassed 70 metres, and 7 threw past 69 metres. USA’s Sam Mattis, who threw 70.08m to complete runner-up to Denny three days earlier, improved to 71.27m to complete third in Sunday’s contest, and Germany’s Clemens Prufer threw 71.01m to complete fourth. Nice Britain’s Lawrence Okoye completed fifth with 70.76m.
Alekna’s 74.35m in Ramona on 14 April final 12 months had damaged the longest-standing males’s world report – that 74.08m achieved by Jurgen Schult in 1986, some 16 years earlier than Alekna was born.
Now, the 22-year-old has change into the primary athlete to surpass 75 meters.
The Alekna household has two of the highest 4 males’s discus throwers in historical past, with two-time Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna – the daddy of Mykolas – now positioned fourth on the world all-time listing together with his 73.88m from 2000.
Mykolas Alekna’s newest world report got here the day after Valarie Allman threw a North American report of 73.52m in Ramona for the world’s farthest girls’s discus throw since 1989.
*Topic to the same old ratification process
