The young Lithuanian Mykolas Aleknaat 21 years old, entered the front door of the world’s athletics throw away your disc until 74.35 metersending the international reign it held for 38 years the German Jürgen Schult with a score of 74.08, the oldest in men’s athletics.
Mikolas, a physical marvel of 1.94 meters, comes from a family of athletes and knows very well what the discus represents. He is the son of Virgilijus, who was double Olympic champion in Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 and also double world gold in Paris 2003 and Helsinki 2005.
Virgilijus marks an era as a discus thrower. In fact, until the release of his son he was third in the world ranking with a best mark of 73.88 meters in Kaunas on August 3, 2000.
Almost twenty-four years later, his son, who is now the heir to the discus, reached 74.35 meters at the Oklahoma meeting in Ramona (United States). They could even be more as the initial measurement was 74.41, although the judges later lowered it to 74.35.
Their contest was remarkable because no one in history had ever sent the discus, a two-kilogram object, six times over seventy meters in the same competition.
At the time when World Athletics officially ratified this record, the oldest men’s world record would be the hammer with 86.74 meters by Russian Yuri Sedykh on August 30, 1986. In the women’s category the oldest remains the Czech Jarmila Kratochvilova in 800 , holding the record since July 26, 1983.
Source: La Verdad
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