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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OKLAHOMA – Mykolas Alekna broke the longest-standing world record in men’s athletics on April 14, producing a mammoth 74.35m discus throw to shatter the nearly 38-year-old previous mark. The ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than 13 feet at world championships on Tuesday to win the title ...

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.

An Aussie discus thrower who broke the world record last weekend has had his achievements marred by a bizarre claim of 'weather doping' from some commentators. Matthew Denny was competing at the ...

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 ...

Arizona State's Jorinde van Klinken competed unattached last week at two meets in Tucson, hoping for an Olympic qualifying mark in discus. She needed a throw of 63.50 meters (208 feet-4 inches), not ...

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 ...

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 ...