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 ...
BERKELEY — Mykolas Alekna has pretty much exceeded all expectations since arriving at Cal as the son of a former two-time Olympic discus champion. On Friday in Eugene, Oregon, in his final competition ...
RAMONA, Okla. (AP) — Mykolas Alekna surpassed his world record in the discus twice on Sunday. The Lithuanian star threw a discus 247 feet, 9 inches (75.56 meters) at the Oklahoma Throws Series World ...
Mac Wilkins stepped into the discus ring that afternoon in a state of bewilderment. A few minutes earlier, Craig Caudill, a hurdler and teammate of Wilkins on the Pacific Coast Club, had been shagging ...
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 ...
April 13 (Reuters) - Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania made history on Sunday by breaking the world discus record and becoming the first athlete to surpass the 75-metre mark. The 22-year-old threw 75.56 ...
After what his coach called “a dream season” in 2024, Mykolas Alekna will begin his final Cal track and field season at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational at Edwards Stadium on Saturday. Alekna, the ...
Following in your parents’ footsteps can be a daunting task: just ask Bronny James what it’s like to launch a sports career without comparisons to his father, LeBron, arguably the greatest basketball ...