Miká Sosna
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| Nationality | German | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 13 June 2003 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Discus throw | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | Discus: 68.96 (Ramona, 2024) | ||||||||||||||
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Miká Sosna (born 13 June 2003) is a German track and field athlete. In 2022, he set a world under-20 record in the discus throw.[1]
Career[edit]
From Hamburg, he is a member of TSG Bergedorf where he is coached by Juri Minor, a former Soviet decathlon champion.[2] Competing as a 17 year-old in Neubrandenburg in 2020, he threw a 1.5kg discus 64.05m to set a world record in his age group.[3]
In June 2022, he set a Men’s world U20 discus (1.75kg) record of 71.37m in Schönebeck.[4] He surpassed the 14-year-old previous record set by the Ukrainian Mykyta Nesterenko by 1.24 meters.[5] In August 2022, he was a silver medalist at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships in Cali, Colombia, despite only being able to make on throw in the final because of an abductor injury.[6] He was awarded the German youth athlete of the year for 2022.[7]
He missed a lot of the 2023 season with an ankle ligament injury. In April 2024, he threw a new German U23 record distance of 68.96 meters at the Oklahoma Throws Series meeting in Ramona. This also achieved the Olympic minimum standard for Paris 2024.[8][9] The previous record was set by Wolfgang Schmidt in 1979.[10]
Personal life[edit]
His younger brother Matti also competes im track and field and won bronze in the hammer throw and silver in the discus at the German U16 championships in Stuttgart in 2023.[11]
References[edit]
- ^ "Mika Sosna". World Athletics. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Too dangerous for Bergedorf!". Hamburg.de. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Throwing it to the top of the world". Tesa.com. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Ratified: world records for Duplantis, Bol and Seifu, world U20 records for Jackson and Sosna". World Athletics. 6 April 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "MIKA SOSNA SETS NEW U-20 WORLD RECORD IN DICUS THROWING". stiftung-leistungssport.de. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Super Cali goes ballistic, athletes are precocious". World Athletics. 7 August 2022. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Mika Sosna enttäuscht mit Platz elf beim Europacup in Leiria". adenblatt.de. 12 March 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Smythe, Steve (16 April 2024). "World leads galore in Florida and Amber Anning improves again". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Interview Mika Sosna: „Der Wettkampf hat sich extrem hochgeschaukelt". Leichtathletik.de. 16 April 2024. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ Fischer, Johannes (16 April 2024). "German also broke ancient record". Sport1.de. Retrieved 17 April 2024.
- ^ "Matti Sosna – Der kleine Bruder des Weltrekordlers legt los". abendblatt. 1 August 2023. Retrieved 17 April 2024.