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Virgilijus Alekna ((:vʲɪrʲˈɡʲɪlʲɪjʊs ɐlʲɛkˈnɐ); 13 February 1972 in Terpeikiai, near Kupiškis) is a Lithuanian discus thrower. He won medals at the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympics, including two golds. ==Career== Alekna has won two gold medals in the Summer Olympics in the discus throw, the first was in 2000 and the second in 2004. He also won the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. In 2007, he was appointed as UNESCO Champion for Sport. His personal record is 73.88 meters (242 ft 4½ in), surpassed only by the world record (74.08 m.). Alekna was awarded the title of the Athlete of the Year for 2000 by Track and Field News. He was also awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas by the government of Lithuania. He became the Lithuanian Sportsman of the Year 4 times (2000, 2004, 2005, and 2006). Since 1995 Alekna has served as a bodyguard of the Lithuanian Prime Minister. He is married to former long jumper Kristina Sablovskytė-Aleknienė and has two young sons named Martynas and Mykolas. At a height of 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in), Alekna has an unusually long armspan, measured 2.22m (7 ft 3.5 in), which is helpful in discus throwing. He can make fingerprints on windows of two opposite sides of a bus simultaneously.〔(IAAF )〕 During the 2007 World Championship Virgilijus Alekna competed with an injury. Having sustained the injury on 20 August, he competed in the World Championship's qualification on 28 August〔 Eglė Šilinskaitė. (Nenugalimąjį metiką įveikė kojos trauma (Unbeatable thrower was defeat by leg injury) ). Retrieved on 2007-08-29〕 and, as a result, suffered a defeat, which broke his 37 victories in a row over the past two years.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Virgilijus Alekna」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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