{"id":16142,"date":"2024-04-15T07:10:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mykolas-alekna-breaks-mens-discus-record-with-74-35m-throw\/"},"modified":"2024-04-15T07:10:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T07:10:06","slug":"mykolas-alekna-breaks-mens-discus-record-with-74-35m-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mykolas-alekna-breaks-mens-discus-record-with-74-35m-throw\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykolas Alekna breaks men&#8217;s discus record with 74.35m throw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mykolas Alekna produced a throw of 74.35m in the discus to break the longest standing men&#8217;s world record.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lithuanian&#8217;s fifth effort at a throws meet in Ramona, Oklahoma was initially measured at 74.41m but later revised down by six cm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The new record broke that set by German Jurgen Schult, who threw 74.08m in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldathletics.org\/news\/report\/mykolas-alekna-discus-world-record-7435m-oklahoma\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">World Athletics said<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> the new mark by Alekna, 21, was subject to the usual ratification process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alekna won silver and bronze at the 2022 and 2023 world championships respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His record throw dropped his father Virgilijus, who was was Olympic champion in both 2000 and 2004, down to third on the all-time list with his 73.88m in 2000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/68815060\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mykolas Alekna produced a throw of 74.35m in the discus to break the longest standing men&#8217;s world record. The Lithuanian&#8217;s fifth effort at a throws meet in Ramona, Oklahoma was initially measured at 74.41m but later revised down by six cm. The new record broke that set by German Jurgen Schult, who threw 74.08m in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16144,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16142\/revisions\/16144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}