{"id":128339,"date":"2025-12-17T10:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/128339-mykolas-alekna-the-best-athlete-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T10:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T08:40:48","slug":"mykolas-alekna-the-best-athlete-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/news\/128339-mykolas-alekna-the-best-athlete-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mykolas Alekna \u2013 the best athlete of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discus thrower <strong>Mykolas Alekna<\/strong> was elected the best athlete of 2025 at the prestigious Lithuanian Sports Awards.<strong> <\/strong>The athlete started the year by impressively improving the world record \u2013 his discus flew as much as 75.56 m. At the end of the season, the athlete&#8217;s chest was decorated with the second World Championship silver medal in his career. <\/p>\n<p>Accepting the fourth Athlete of the Year award in his career, M. Alekna thanked the team: &#8220;My team is the reason why I have received this award for many years. They give a lot, I wouldn&#8217;t be here without them,&#8221; the athlete said on stage. <\/p>\n<p>Mykolas&#8217; coach <strong>Mantas Jusis<\/strong> was nominated as the Coach of the Year, and his brother <strong>Martynas Alekna<\/strong> applied for the Breakthrough Statuette of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary javelin thrower <strong>Birut\u0117 Kal\u0117dien\u0117<\/strong> was also recognized in these awards \u2013 she was awarded the award &#8220;For Lifetime Merit&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Vytautas Dranginis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discus thrower Mykolas Alekna was elected the best athlete of 2025 at the prestigious Lithuanian Sports Awards. The athlete started the year by impressively improving the world record \u2013 his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":117715,"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-128339","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\/128339","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lengvoji.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}