{"id":115931,"date":"2025-09-25T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/115931-mykolas-alekna-aspires-to-become-the-best-european-track-and-field-athlete\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:47:47","slug":"mykolas-alekna-aspires-to-become-the-best-european-track-and-field-athlete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/115931-mykolas-alekna-aspires-to-become-the-best-european-track-and-field-athlete\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykolas Alekna aspires to become the best European track and field athlete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Athletics Association European Athletics has announced a vote to elect the best athlete of the Old Continent in 2025. In the main category, discus thrower <strong>Mykolas Alekna<\/strong>, who will soon celebrate his 23rd birthday, was nominated. The Lithuanian won the rising star award in 2022.  <\/p>\n<p>This year, Mykolas Alekna improved the world record (75.56 m), became the world vice-champion, triumphed in the final of the &#8220;Diamond League&#8221; and won the gold medal in the Lithuanian championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Tracks awards ceremony will take place on October 25 in Batumi (Georgia). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.european-athletics.com\/home\/golden-track-vote\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Voting<\/a> is open until 6 October. The results of the vote will be determined by the public (25%), the federations of European countries (25%), the media (25%) and experts delegated by European Athletics (25%). <\/p>\n<p>Also nominated in the category of the best European track and field athlete: <strong>Armand Duplantis<\/strong>, <strong>Mattia Furlani<\/strong>, <strong>Jimmy Gressier<\/strong>, <strong>Jakob Ingebrigtsen<\/strong>, <strong>Isaac Nader<\/strong>, <strong>Leo Neugebauer<\/strong>, <strong>Pedro Pichardo<\/strong>, <strong>Sander Scottheim<\/strong>, <strong>Daniel Stahl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>lengvoji.lt<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Alfredas Pliadis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Athletics Association European Athletics has announced a vote to elect the best athlete of the Old Continent in 2025. In the main category, discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":115933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115934,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115931\/revisions\/115934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}