The weight used in the hammer throw event weighs 16 pounds for men and 9 pounds for women in adult competition, according to ...

While rare, similar tragic events have happened at track and field events in the past. In 2005, a 16-pound shot put ball struck and killed an official during a practice at the U.S. track and field ...

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Errant hammer throw kills spectator at Colorado track and field meet. A 57-year-old man in the crowd in Colorado Springs died after a hammer thrown by a participant cleared barriers and struck him.

A man was killed Sunday morning during a high school track and field meet at a fieldhouse on the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus, school officials said.

The result was a throw that no athlete has ever reached in the 4A girls state track and field meet breaking her own school record with a throw of 158 feet and eight inches finishing nearly 10 feet ...

Now a junior, she holds all but one of Tufts' throwing marks, and enters this weekend's NCAA meet as an expected finalist, the best thrower in school history and, according to Morwick, one of the ...

The father of a Colorado United Track Club athlete was killed Sunday after a throwing hammer hurled by a high school athlete cleared the indoor meet’s protective barriers and flew into the crowd.

In 2017, a hammer killed a student at a college track and field meet at Wheaton College in Illinois. And in 2005, a shot put ball hit and killed an officiant during practice at the U.S. track and ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 57-year-old man died Sunday after he was struck by a weight from a weight throw event that cleared a certified barrier during a track and field event at the ...

The weight used in the hammer throw event weighs 16 pounds for men and 9 pounds for women in adult competition, according to World Athletics, the international track and field governing body.

In 2017, a hammer killed a student at a college track and field meet at Wheaton College in Illinois. And in 2005, a shot put ball hit and killed an officiant during practice at the U.S. track and ...