When someone keeps breaking their own record, and one that has stood for decades, they are usually superior enough that they dominate the field for a decade. Think Usain Bolt or Edwin Moses. But when Mykolas Aekna of Lithuania (still young - I mentioned him last year) broke his own record twice in a few hours, there was an Australian who was just behind him. Matt Denny would have broken the record set earlier in the day but was a little short of Aekna. This record is going to be repeatedly broken for a while, much as Mondo Duplantis keeps breaking his own pole vault record.
Mykolas's father was a discus Olympian and held that record for decades.
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