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    Alekna smashes discus world record

    2GrantVNewsBy 2GrantVNewsApril 14, 2025No Comments2 Mins Read

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    Mykolas Alekna (Picture: AP)

    April 13, 2025





    Virtually a 12 months to the day when he broke the world report within the males’s discus throw and on the similar venue, Lithuania’s Olympic Sport silver medalist Myklos Alekna raised the boys’s discus world report on Sunday.

    Alekna threw 75.56mm to win the occasion at Sunday’s remaining day of the Oklahoma Throws Sequence World Invitational at Millican Area, Ramona, Oklahoma.

    The College of California senior who was second to Jamaica’s Roje Stona ultimately 12 months’s Olympic Video games in Paris, France, broke his outdated mark of 74.35m that he set on the similar meet on April 14th final 12 months.

    He broke the outdated mark twice after he had opened with 74.89m within the first spherical. He now owns the highest three longest throws ever along with his father, former Olympic Video games report holder Virgilijus.

    Australia’s Commonwealth Video games champion Matthew Denny was second with a nationwide report 74.78m, breaking his earlier greatest 74.25m set on Thursday additionally at Ramona.

    Many time Jamaican champion Fedrick Dacres witnessed the World report as he was eighth within the group with a season’s greatest 66.33m after fouling out on Thursday.

    One other Jamaican, Chad Wright had thrown 62.87m on Thursday as nicely.






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