Mykolas Alekna broke the world document within the discus on April 14, 2024, together with his sixth throw of 74.35m, breaking Jurgen Schult’s 37-year-old document. On Sunday, Mykolas made historical past in Ramona, Oklahoma, together with his sequence of six throws over 70 meters.
The seek for the proper situations is a part of the discus thrower. For a few years, I recall many discus throwers going to Salinas, California, for the Ed Adams Invitational and the improbable throwing situations in Salinas. John Van Reenen of South Africa broke the WR for the discus in 1974.
Now, the throwing tradition visits Ramona, Oklahoma, and on Saturday, Jaime Perez threw the farthest throw for a ladies’s discus thrower since 1989!
Mykolas Alekna took the silver medal in 2022 in Eugene, Oregon. In 2023, Mykolas Alekna took the bronze medal in Budapest at 21. I look ahead to the battle in Paris in August 2024 with Kristjan Ceh and Daniel Stahl.
Discus WR by Mykolas Alekna
RAMONA (USA, Apr 14): 21-year-old Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania broke the oldest males’s world document within the discus throw on the second day of the Oklahoma Throws Sequence World Invitational (WACT Bronze). The reigning European champion and two-time World medallist threw 74.35m within the fifth sequence and added 27cm to the earlier world better of 74.08 achieved by Jürgen Schult of the German Democratic Republic in 1986. Earlier than throwing the document, the son of two-time Olympic champion Virgilijus Alekna improved his earlier finest twice within the first and third sequence, thus displaying six profitable 70m+ makes an attempt. Alekna’s sequence was (72.21 – 70.32 – 72.89 – 70.51 – 74.41 – 70.50).
Not solely did Mykolas Alekna set the WR, however he lastly bettered the household document held by his dad Virgilijus Alekna of 73.88m, now #3 All-time. pic.twitter.com/Lk7JGhldOU
— Beau Throws (@beau_throws) April 14, 2024
Different throwers additionally took benefit of the very good wind situations on the Millican Subject, attaining some private bests. Jamaica’s Roje Stona completed second, improved to 69.05, and obtained Paris commonplace, over Germany’s World U20 silver medallist Mike Sosna, who additionally went over Paris commonplace and added greater than 3m to his earlier finest to 68.96. The title defender, Alex Rose of Samoa, completed fourth (68.20) forward of Connor Bell, who improved the NR for New Zealand to 68.10 (additionally Paris commonplace), and Andrew Evans (67.50). Seventh, Dallin Shurts additionally improved considerably to 66.58, and an unbelievable depth of the competitors is proved by the truth that 20 of 25 competing throwers surpassed the 60m barrier. Daniel Haugh produced 79.03 within the hammer throw, the second-best mark of the season behind Aliaksandr Shymanovich of Belarus, successful over Netherlands’s Denzel Comenentia (77.73).
WORLD RECORD
The oldest males’s world document in athletics has been damaged 🔥
Mykolas Alekna has simply thrown an astonishing 74.41m within the males’s discus 🇱🇹
He takes down Jürgen Schult’s mark of 74.08m from 1986 💥pic.twitter.com/3CejuqudpF
— AW (@AthleticsWeekly) April 14, 2024
BERLIN (GER): Talking on dropping his world document within the discus, Jürgen Schult mentioned: “I awakened my spouse this morning with the phrases: you now have a former world record-holder at house. I had 38 years to organize for it. There have been some who might have made it, resembling Virgilijus Alekna, Gerd Kanter, or Robert Harting. The situations have been typically not proper, however now every little thing got here collectively. I instantly congratulated Mykolas Alekna. That was a very sturdy efficiency; it’s a must to acknowledge that, together with the sequence with six 70-meter throws. I by no means managed that in competitors.” From Leichtathletik.de.
RAMONA (USA): “It was clear after Mykolas’s first try that it will be a world document,” mentioned Mantas Jusis, the coach of Mykolas Alekna. “After they began to measure the fifth throw and I heard the document numbers, the feelings have been excellent. The entire Aleknas household has such a practice as a result of Virgilijus was the boss of the home with 73.88m, so now he’s not the primary in the home; he’s nonetheless second, and perhaps he’ll keep third [23-years old brother Martynas is 67m thrower].
