The Sixth Throw
The record came at the very end. In Olomouc on 2 July 2026, on the first day of the World Para Athletics Women's Grand Prix, Madina Mukhtorova saved her best for her final release. The Uzbek thrower reached 25.71 metres in the women's discus F40 on her sixth and last attempt, moving the two-year-old world record of Sliwinska by more than half a metre.
The competition rewarded patience. The warm weather over the Olomouc stadium suited the throwers, and the historical tables were rewritten twice in the opening block alone. Mukhtorova had circled the field through five rounds, holding her nerve while the sector filled with reputations larger than her own. Then she stepped in for the last time and let the discus go.
The name that made the result matter belonged to another woman. Raoua Tlili of Tunisia, seven-time Paralympic champion and owner of eleven world titles, threw in the same F40 sector. The Tunisian has defined the event for a decade. On this day the outcome ran against the script. The legend finished with bronze. Mukhtorova, barely known outside her federation, walked away with the record.
The Shape of a Career
To grasp the distance travelled, look back two years. Mukhtorova represented Uzbekistan at the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris, where she finished eighth in the shot put and eleventh in the discus, throwing a personal best of 19.77 metres. The Olomouc mark sits nearly six metres beyond that afternoon. The eleventh-place finisher of Paris now holds the world record.
The climb had a middle chapter. At the 2025 World Para Athletics Championships she won silver in the shot put F40, her first medal on the senior world stage. Born in November 2006, she arrived in the Czech Republic still nineteen years old, young for a discipline that usually rewards accumulated strength. The trajectory reads cleanly: a place in the Paris field, a world silver, and now a line at the top of the discus tables.
Olomouc has become a place where such lines get drawn. Mukhtorova's throw was one of two world records set in that first competition block, the meeting living up to a field built for it. For most of the afternoon the story pointed towards the established champion. It turned on a single attempt from someone who had not yet learned to expect it.
She led no round until the one that counted. The discus landed, the tape was drawn, and a teenager from Uzbekistan held a mark no woman in her class had reached before.
The record has a new name on it now. It is hers.
