Wade Langston was sitting in the audience at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse on the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus when a hammer weight thrown by a participant cleared ...

A spectator at a track and field event in Colorado died when he was struck by an errant hammer throw. The incident occurred Sunday at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, which was ...

The father of a Colorado United Track Club athlete was killed Sunday after a throwing hammer hurled by a high ... The Colorado Springs Fire Department arrived on the scene at the University ...

The hammer throw, in which competitors seek to throw a wire-handled spherical weight the farthest, is an Olympic track and field event, Britannica said. Colorado Springs is about a 70-mile drive ...