A sports spectator has died after a university athlete threw a hammer out of bounds at a field and track event in Colorado, ...

The hammer throw at the Summer Games peaked in 1988 ... with a 1988 throw of 84.80 meters for the Soviet Union. The World record holder is his compatriot, Yuriy Sedykh, who threw 86.74 meters ...

School girl Annelize Smith improved a long-standing Namibian senior national athletics record in the women’s hammer throw last weekend. Smith, a 17-year-old turning 18 in April, is a learner at ...

A 2-time All-American in the hammer throw, Desnoyers won the NCAA championship in the event in his senior season, and also set a Boston College hammer-throw record. The NCAA hammer-throw champion in ...

The fatal incident occurred at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse on the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs campus around ...

Wade Langston, 57, of Colorado Springs was a dedicated father and husband with a great sense of humor, relatives said.

Advertisement The World Athletics Organization defines a hammer throw as “a metal ball that’s attached to a grip by a steel wire.” The hammer weighs 16 pounds for men and 8.8 pounds for women.

TOKYO - Poland's Wojciech Nowicki won the men's hammer throw with a personal best of 82.52m on Wednesday ... He added he planned to spend next year chasing Yuriy Sedykh's 35-year-old world record of ...

A spectator at a youth track and field meet in Colorado was killed after he was struck by an errant hammer throw that cleared ...

Relatives of a spectator killed by an errant weight thrown at a youth track and field meet in Colorado say he was a dedicated ...