When you think track and field, you probably picture sprints around the oval, maybe some hurdles, and perhaps a jumping event, like the high jump or the long jump. Those are all accurate visions, but ...

Kostas Zaltos, a graduate student from Kilikis, Greece, capped his storied Gophers track career last week in Eugene, Ore. with an NCAA Outdoor Track and Field championship in the hammer throw. His ...

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Fresno Pacific senior hammer thrower Jesse Franco is having a career year. "The feeling is just surreal and spiritual," he said. In early February, Franco beat his own record ...

Janee’ Kassanavoid likens the hammer throw to poetry. And complete chaos. It’s beautiful and it’s powerful. She loves it, she hates it. Once she begins to spin in the ring, swinging the 8.8-pound ...

Brock Eager doesn’t take a dos-and-don’ts list with him into a big meet like the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. Maybe just one don’t. “Don’t get in your head too much,” he said. “If you think, ...

Here’s a recent Olympics story via the Associated Press: SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — One of America’s very best in the medieval-looking pursuit of hammer throw thought she had seen it all when it came ...

Who gets the hammer could play a big impact for the end of the match.

EUGENE, Oreg. (KFVS) - Southeast Missouri State’s Parker Feuerborn earned First Team All-American in the Hammer Throw Wednesday in the Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Eugene, ...

Former Pickerington North standout Annette Echikunwoke made Olympic history Tuesday in the hammer throw in Paris. A 2014 graduate of North, Echikunwoke became the first U.S. female athlete to win a ...

The Gopher men's hammer throwers are the best in the country. At the NCAA championships last week, they pulled off an improbable 1-2 finish. If it wasn't one, it was going to be the other. The NCAA ...

If Olympic medals were given out on the basis of good genes, then Japanese hammer thrower Koji Murofushi would walk away with the gold right now. His father earned the title of “Asia’s Man of Iron” ...