{"id":28571,"date":"2025-04-14T16:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mykolas-alekna-smashes-mens-discus-world-record-in-ramona\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:31:55","slug":"mykolas-alekna-smashes-mens-discus-world-record-in-ramona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/mykolas-alekna-smashes-mens-discus-world-record-in-ramona\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykolas Alekna smashes men&#8217;s discus world record in Ramona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mykolas Alekna became the first male athlete to surpass the 75-metre mark in the discus, smashing his previous world record by more than a metre.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old from Lithuania twice set new world bests in Ramona, Oklahoma, throwing 74.89m with his first attempt and then improving to 75.56m in round four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alekna threw 74.35m at the same venue last year to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/68815060\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">break the longest-standing men&#8217;s world record<\/a> in athletics, which had stood since 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia&#8217;s Matt Denny finished second at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meeting with a throw of 74.78m &#8211; 43cm further than the previous world record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alekna won Olympic silver at Paris 2024, missing out on gold by three centimetres to Jamaica&#8217;s Roje Stona.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cvgney1lqgxo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mykolas Alekna became the first male athlete to surpass the 75-metre mark in the discus, smashing his previous world record by more than a metre. The 22-year-old from Lithuania twice set new world bests in Ramona, Oklahoma, throwing 74.89m with his first attempt and then improving to 75.56m in round four. Alekna threw 74.35m at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28572,"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\/28571"}],"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=28571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28573,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28571\/revisions\/28573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}