There are plenty of things Lithuanian discus specialist Mykolas Alekna enjoys about being a student at Cal. He has learned to fend for himself 5,700 miles from home, cultivated friendships ...

Mykolas Alekna produced a throw of 74.35m in the discus to break the longest-standing men's world record. The Lithuanian's fifth effort at a throws meet in Ramona, Oklahoma was initially measured ...

Two decades after his father broke records in the same event, Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna has the opportunity to ...

JAMAICA’S Roje Stona won gold in the Olympic discus throw on Wednesday, upsetting world record holder Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania to claim his country’s first-ever medal in the event at the Games.

PARIS (Reuters) - Lithuania's world record-holder Mykolas Alekna showed he is the man to beat in the men's discus at the Paris Olympics after his leading throw in Monday's preliminary round. The ...

I gave him my respect because we are throwers; I used to watch Alekna’s dad when I just started discus,” he said. “From the way that I held the discus, the angle of where I caught the discus ...