The man, who was watching in the audience at the UCCS fieldhouse, died when a hammer weight thrown by a participant cleared “certified barriers” and struck him.

The fatal incident occurred at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse on the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs campus around 9:30 a.m. Sunday morning.

Track and field events test speed, strength, and endurance while concealing hidden dangers for participants and spectators.

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 ...

The club hosted the track event for high school athletes around the state on the UC Colorado Springs campus. The World Athletics Organization defines a hammer throw as “a metal ball that’s ...

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 ...

This is what *** weight throwing event looks like. It's similar to the more popular hammer toss but without the long chain attached to the weight. It was just horrible for everybody. Matt Crich ...

The man killed by a flying weight thrown off-course during a Sunday high school track-and-field meet in Colorado Springs was a 57-year-old father there to watch his son compete, El Paso County coroner ...

A spectator at a high school indoor track meeting is killed after being accidently hit by a hammer thrown by an athlete.

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 ...

A spectator was killed in a horrific accident at a high school track and field meet in Colorado on Sunday when a competing athlete threw a hammer into the onlooking crowd. The track meet, which ...