On Sunday, Mykolas Alekna of California Berkeley set a world report within the discus throw of 74.35 meters on the Oklahoma Throwing Series in Romona.
In doing so, the Lithuanian-born college junior broke the world report for males’s monitor and discipline of 74.08 meters, set by Jürgen Schult in 1986.
Alekna was a bronze medalist on the World Championships in Budapest in the summertime and began the competitors with a throw of 72.21 meters. He threw 70.32 meters, 72.89 meters and 70.51 meters for the remaining sequence, reaching the world all-time report on his fifth try.
Initially, the 21-year-old’s throw distance was 74.41 meters, however this was later corrected utilizing metal tape measurements.
Alekna set the collegiate discus report with a throw of 71.00 meters a few yr in the past. Three of his pitches Sunday surpassed that mark. t
Pitching run at Alekna home.
Alekna’s father, two-time Olympic champion Virgilius Alekna, beforehand ranked second on the all-time record. His 73.88m toss in 2000 has put him in third place.
The efficiency got here a day after Cuba’s Yaime Perez accomplished the world’s longest discus throw since 1989 on the identical competitors. On Saturday, the 2019 world champion threw 73.09 meters.
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