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 ...

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 ...

Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania made history on Sunday by breaking the world discus record and becoming the first athlete to surpass the 75-meter mark. The 22-year-old threw 75.56 meters at the World ...

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 ...

The story of the day on Tuesday was Laulauga Tausaga's shock win in the women's discus, which was a career-best throw by just over four meters. Laulauga Tausaga's first two throws did not go well on ...

Laulauga Tausaga-Collins won the United States’ first-ever world championship gold in the women’s discus. She launched a winning throw of 69.49 meters beating her previous best record by nearly four ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary >> Discus throw is a game of centimeters. So when Laulauga Tausaga launched a throw that beat her personal best by more than four meters (13 feet) at world championships on Tuesday ...

The rising junior has the No. 2 qualifying mark and hopes to add to his silver medal of a year ago. Cal rising junior Mykolas Alekna easily qualified into Monday’s final in the discus at the World ...

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 ...

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 ...