He has set two world records, won a silver medal at the Paris Olympics, twice climbed the podium at the World Championships and is the youngest athlete ever to throw the discus 70 meters. He even has ...

MELBOURNE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Australian discus king Matt Denny is chasing his first world championships medal in Tokyo and will do it alongside the man he regards as both the benchmark and a ...

Newest Oregon Duck Mykolas Alekna didn’t need to familiarize himself with Hayward Field before competing in the Prefontaine Classic. The world record holder has been here several times before. July 5, ...

Cal’s Mykolas Alekna has twice set the world record in the discus, but his college career ended Friday without an NCAA championship. The 22-year-old from Lithuania entered his final NCAA meet at ...

BERKELEY — Mykolas Alekna has pretty much exceeded all expectations since arriving at Cal as the son of a former two-time Olympic discus champion. On Friday in Eugene, Oregon, in his final competition ...

Mac Wilkins stepped into the discus ring that afternoon in a state of bewilderment. A few minutes earlier, Craig Caudill, a hurdler and teammate of Wilkins on the Pacific Coast Club, had been shagging ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — Mohamad Saatara unpacks the laser measuring tape and focuses in as discus world record-holder Mykolas Alekna steps into the cage and lets one fly. Alekna methodically makes his way ...

TOKYO, Sept 14 (Reuters) - American double Olympic discus champion Valarie Allman said she finally "feels complete" after claiming the world title that had proved so elusive when she took an emphatic ...