Cal Thrower Mykolas Alekna's Big Season Ends With Third Place in Rome

The 21-year-old Lithuanian broke the world record and won a silver medal in the discus at the Paris Olympics

Cal junior Mykolas Alekna completed an historic track and field season on Friday with a third-place finish in the discus at the Golden Gala, a Diamond League meet in Rome.

At Rome, the Lithuanian threw 222 feet, 0 inches in the fifth round to climb into second place. But Slovenia’s Kristjan Ceh, the 2022 world champion, delivered the winning throw of 225-1 on his sixth and final attempt to secure first place. Alekna is expected to return to the Bay Area to start his fourth academic year at Cal. He will be a junior athletically, having skipped the 2024 collegiate season to prepare for the Olympics.He uncorked a throw of 243-11 on April 14 at Ramona, Oklahoma to shatter the nearly 38-year-old world record of 243-0 set by East Germany’s Jurgen Schult back in 1986 -- 16 years before Alekna was born.

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