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 ...

April 14 (Reuters) - Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania shattered the world discus record on Sunday, eclipsing the longest-standing global men's mark in athletics set 38 years ago. The 21-year-old threw an ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Australian discus king Matt Denny is chasing his first world championships medal in Tokyo and will do it alongside the man he regards as both the benchmark and a ...

Mykolas Alekna broke the oldest world record in a men’s Olympic event when he crushed the previous standard in the discus by nearly a foot on Sunday at the Oklahoma Throws Series meet at Ramona, Okla.

World records set by three athletes, Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis, men's discus thrower Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania and Kenyan long-distance runner Beatrice Chebet, have been ratified by the ...

Mykolas Alekna continues to stretch the limits of what is possible in the discus throw. The 22-year-old Lithuanian, competing in his final season as a Cal athlete, twice broke his own year-old world ...

Mykolas Alekna broke the longest standing world record in men's athletics on Sunday, producing a mammoth 74.35-meter discus throw to shatter the nearly 38-year-old previous best mark. The Barron's ...

TOKYO - 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 rich haul ...

TAMPERE, Finland – Competing for her home country of Moldova, Kansas track & field freshman Alexandra Emilianov qualified for the final in the women’s discus out of Qualification Group A at the IAAF ...

Leo Neugebauer set a world record in the discus and is poised to collect a second straight decathlon title at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. As if his national title-winning performance ...