hammer throw
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“I’m just a shot guy right now, but I’d like to do the shot and hammer throw in college,” Kensinger said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
As an athlete, Dickenson achieved a 14th-place finish in the hammer throw at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, before competing four years later in Moscow.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2024
Campbell, from Nottingham, only took up the sport when she started university, having initially started it to improve her performance in shot put and the hammer throw.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2024
Elisabet Runarsdottir won the hammer throw at 231-2 to become the first women’s champion in 28 years for Texas State.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2024
We couldn't see how we were to lose first in anything except the quarter, the high hurdles, the hammer throw and the broad jump.
From The New Boy at Hilltop by Ralph Henry Barbour
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