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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?

Hammer throw

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.

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