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:Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania shattered the world discus record on Sunday, eclipsing the longest-standing global men's mark in athletics set 38 years ago.

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Tokyo worlds: Stahl leaves it late to win discus gold in delayed final

TOKYO: Former Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden won the last gold medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Sunday with the penultimate throw of a men’s discus final delayed for more than two hours by rain.

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Stahl leaves it late to win discus gold in delayed final

TOKYO :Former Olympic champion Daniel Stahl of Sweden won the last gold medal of the 2025 World Athletics Championships on Sunday with the penultimate throw of a men's discus final delayed for more than two hours by rain.

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Discus inferno: Australia's Denny eyes Tokyo throwdown with world record holder Alekna

MELBOURNE :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 drinking buddy: world record holder Mykolas Alekna.

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Seville, Alfred and Koech shine in London rain

LONDON: Oblique Seville left Olympic champion Noah Lyles chewing his dust on Saturday as the Jamaican blasted out of the blocks and kept the hammer down to win the London Diamond League 100 meters in a hot 9.86 seconds. Seville, so impressive through the rounds at last year’s Olympics before coming last in the final, roared into a two-meter lead after 20 meters and was never threatened as he came home clear, with Lyles finishing strongly, but not enough, for second in 10.00.

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Seville, Alfred and Koech shine in London rain

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Day of monster discus throws condemned as 'weather doping'

Performance-enhancing drugs have long been the scourge of athletics field events but now some observers are claiming "weather doping" was behind a slew of discus records at a meeting in the United States on Sunday.

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Mykolas Alekna Smashes His Own World Discus Record

Mykolas Alekna of Lithuania obliterated his own world discus record with a throw of 75.56 metres on Sunday at the same venue where he set the previous mark a year ago. The Olympic silver medallist became the first man ever to launch a discus further than 75m with his effort in the fourth round at the Oklahoma Throws Series competition in Ramona. That heave improved his mark from 12 months ago by more than a metre. In fact, he first broke the previous record by half a metre with his opening throw of 74.89m.

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Mykolas Alekna Smashes His Own World Discus Record

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