Rescue crews from the Colorado Springs Fire Department were called ... Chancellor Jennifer Sobanet said in a statement. The hammer throw is one of four track and field events typically held ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - During a high school track meet at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs a participant in the meet made an errant hammer throw which struck and killed one ...

An errant weight thrown by a competitor in a hammer throw event struck and killed ... man Sunday morning at the University of Colorado's Colorado Springs campus, according to a university statement.

Colorado Springs Police told CBS News that the man died while trying to protect his wife and son as the object neared the audience. Per World Athletics, "The hammer throw is a track and field ...

Wade Langston was sitting in the audience at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse on the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus ... around 9:30 a.m. In the hammer throw event, the athlete ...

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 ...

The hammer throw, a traditional event in track and ... and died shielding his wife and son from the hammer, according to Colorado Springs ABC affiliate KRDO.