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Her teammate Gabriel Wallmark also won the men’s triple jump final with a national U20 record of 16.43m and there was initially another gold medal for Sweden in the 400m hurdles before Oskar Edlund incurred the wrath of the judges for a trail leg infringement.

While Alekna won his second major title of the season, Sweden’s Maja Askag brought her tally up to four gold medals after repeating the horizontal jump double which she achieved last month at the European U20 Championships in Tallinn.Īfter winning the long jump title in Tallinn with a wind-aided 6.80m, Askag won this title in Nairobi with a wind-legal lifetime best of 6.60m to win by one centimetre from India’s Shaili Singh.Īskag, who also jumped 13.75m to win the triple jump final on Friday, became only the second athlete in championship history to win both titles after Russia’s Yelena Lysak all the way back in 1994. Four of his five valid throws - 69.81m, 68.52m, 67.67m, 67.10m - would have sufficed for the title ahead of Jamaica’s Ralford Mullings’ who set a lifetime best of 66.68m to win silver. This mark was not only a championship record but it also represented the second longest throw in history with the U20 1.75kg implement, bettered only by Ukraine’s Mykyta Nesterenko whose world U20 record of 70.13m has stood since 2008.Īfter a prodigious opener, Alekna couldn’t improve on that first round throw but he amassed a gleaming series. Women’s world record: Gabriele Reinsch (76.80m), set in 1988.Lithuania’s Mykolas Alekna won his second major title of the season in the discus on the last day of competition at the World Athletics U20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya on Sunday (22) and he approached the world U20 record in the process.Īlekna won the European U20 title in Tallinn last month with 68.00m but in the rarefied conditions in Nairobi, the 18-year-old improved to an unassailable 69.81m with his first throw of the final. Men’s world record: Jürgen Schult (74.08m), set in 1986. This circular object is 2kg for men, and 1kg for women. Discus throwĪthletes must spin in a 2.5m-diameter circle and rely on rotational energy to throw the discus. Women’s world record: Anita Włodarczyk (82.98m), set in 2016. Men’s world record: Yuriy Sedykh (86.74m), set in 1986. The hammer, a metal ball connected by a cable to a handle, weighs 7.26kg for men and 4kg for women. The circle from which the hammer is thrown is 2.135m in diameter, and is made of cement or some similar surface, always installed inside a safety cage protected with nets.

However, the weight of the discus, hammer and shot does vary. The competition format in these events is the same for women and men: a first qualifying phase and, finally, the final. The US city of Eugene, Oregon, hosts the 2022 World Athletics Championships, which are to run from 15 to 24 July at the University of Oregon’s Hayward Field.Īway from the track, the field events will include three disciplines in which strength, balance and timing take precedence over speed and endurance: the hammer throw, the discus throw and the shot put.