| Miká Sosna | |
| Nationality: | German |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | Discus throw |
| Birth Date: | 13 June 2003 |
| Pb: | Discus: 68.96 (Ramona, 2024) |
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]
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]
In May 2024, he was selected for the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome.[11]
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.[12]