Alekna smashes discus world record, becomes first man to cross 75m
Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania improved his own discus throw world record more than a metre throwing a horic 75.56m throw at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational, a World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting, in Ramona on Sunday.
The 2024 Paris Olympics silver medall improved his mark twice first setting a world record of 74.89m with his opening throw and then improving to 75.56m in the fourth round. The 22-year-old has become the first athlete in the hory of sport to surpass 75 metres mark.
The Alekna family has produced two of the top four men’s discus throwers in hory, with two-time Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna, father of Mykolas, is now placed fourth on the world all-time l with his 73.88m from 2000.
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Alekna’s 74.35m in Ramona on 14 April last year had broken the longest standing men’s world record – that 74.08m having been achieved Jurgen Schult in 1986, some 16 years before Alekna was born.
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Along with Mykolas, Australian thrower Matt Denny also surpassed his previous world record throwing his personal best of 74.78m. The Olympic bronze medall backed up that throw with four other attempts beyond 70 metres, including 73.36m in the final round.
It was a very competitive field with five athletes crossing the 70m mark and seven athletes going beyond the 69m. USA’s Sam Mattis, who threw 70.08m to finish runner-up to Denny three days earlier, improved to 71.27m to finish third in Sunday’s contest and Germany’s Clemens Prufer threw 71.01m to finish fourth. Great Britain’s Lawrence Okoye finished fifth with 70.76m.
Mykolas Alekna’s latest world record came the day after Valarie Allman threw a North American record of 73.52m in Ramona for the farthest women’s discus throw in the world since 1989.
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