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Lithuanian Mykolas Alekna broke a 37-year-old world record in the men's discus, the oldest world record in men's track and field. Alekna, a 21-year-old junior at Cal-Berkeley, threw the four-pound ...

A former multi-event athlete and discus world-record holder, Harry Gill coached at the University of Illinois. In 1921 he organized the very first NCAA championship in any sport, and his Illini won ...

Elijah Hagen seems to have found his niche in the discus. The junior on the Jordan boys track team broke the school record in that event that had stood for 37 years with a toss of 157 feet, 9 ...

Stona set an Olympic discus record of 229-8 (70.00) in becoming the first Jamaican to win an Olympic field event and defeated the current discus world record holder in the process. He was the ...