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Discus thrower Mykolas Alekna breaks oldest world record in men’s track and field

Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men’s discus, the oldest world record in men’s track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...
The Courier-Mail

Matt Denny broke the discus world record only to have his rival better the mark at the same event

Olympian Matt Denny is doing things he’s never done before but a world record discus throw only moved his main rival to go even further. Competing at the Oklahoma Throws Series World Invitational on ...
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World Athletics Championships: how much do the hammer, discus & shot weigh? What are the world records?

The European city of Budapest in Hungary hosts the 2023 World Athletics Championships, which run from 19 to 27 August. Away from the track, the field events will include three disciplines in which ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

New world discus champion is Mount Miguel High School grad

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than 13 feet at world championships on Tuesday to win the title ...
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Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna breaks longest standing men’s track and field world record

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 throw of 74 ...