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 ...

Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania made history on Sunday by breaking the world discus record and becoming the first athlete to surpass the 75-meter mark. The 22-year-old threw 75.56 meters at the World ...

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 ...

Laulauga Tausaga-Collins won the United States’ first-ever world championship gold in the women’s discus. She launched a winning throw of 69.49 meters beating her previous best record by nearly four ...

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 ...

The story of the day on Tuesday was Laulauga Tausaga's shock win in the women's discus, which was a career-best throw by just over four meters. Laulauga Tausaga's first two throws did not go well on ...

The rising junior has the No. 2 qualifying mark and hopes to add to his silver medal of a year ago. Cal rising junior Mykolas Alekna easily qualified into Monday’s final in the discus at the World ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Sweden's world champion Daniel Stahl needed just one attempt to qualify for the men's discus final and Qatar's Mutaz Barshim kicked off his bid to add a high-jump Olympic gold to his ...

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 ...