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Understanding the Hammer Throw

This quiz tests your knowledge about the hammer throw, its history, and its significance in athletics, particularly in Scottish culture and the Olympic Games.

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1 Such competitions are still part of the Scottish ________, where the implement used is a steel or lead weight at the end of a cane handle.

2 While the men's hammer throw has been in the ________ since 1900, the IAAF did not start ratifying women's marks until 1995.

3 Women's hammer throw was first included in the Olympics at the ________ in Sydney, after having been included in the World Championships a year earlier.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • at age 17 years and 331 days, Polish hammer thrower Kamila Skolimowska (pictured) was the youngest Olympic champion in the 2000 Summer Olympics.
  • at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics, Yipsi Moreno became world champion in the hammer throw at the age of twenty, improving from an eighteenth place finish in 1999.
  • athlete Al Hall won three Pan American Games gold medals in the hammer throw in three consecutive decades, with wins in 1959, 1963 and 1971.
  • although Hungarian hammer thrower Balázs Kiss won the 1996 Olympic gold medal, his best result at the World Championships was two fourth places.
  • after winning a 2004 Olympic bronze medal, Cuban hammer thrower Yunaika Crawford was not in the top ten at the 2005 World Championships.
  • American hammer thrower Walter Boal astonished passengers on a ship traveling to England in 1899 by skipping rope around the deck with another athlete on his back.
  • Harry Hawkins won the U.S. national collegiate hammer throw championship in 1926 and was rated by Fielding Yost as the best football lineman of 1925.
  • track and field star Bob Backus, who set world records in the hammer throw, wore ballet slippers while competing.
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