Just 21 years old, Cal junior Mykolas Alekna trekked to tiny Ramona, Oklahoma on April 14, where he broke the 38-year-old world record in the discus
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to a close after more than a century, we count down the Top 50 moments involving Cal athletics.The youngest silver medalist in the discus at age 19 at the 2022 World Championships, Mykolas Alekna took his game to another level when he erased a 38-year-old world record on his fifth attempt of the day at the Oklahoma Throws Series this spring.
But Alekna — redshirting this season to prepare for the Olympics — topped all that on April 14 of this year at Ramona, Oklahoma, a town of barely 500 residents that sits along U.S. 175, a half-hour north of Tulsa. East German Jurgen Schult’s record throw of 243-0 had stood since 1986 — 16 years before Alekna was born. In more than a century, no one as young as the 21-year-old Cal junior had broken the world record in the event.
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