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The 35 lb (16 kg) weight throw (men) and 20 lb (9.1 kg) weight throw (women) are not recognised by World Athletics. The Scottish Highland Games contain two weight throwing events. In the one event the weight, 28 lb (2 st; 13 kg) or 56 lb (4 st; 25 kg), is thrown in a similar manner to a discus.
The weight throw at the Summer Olympics was contested at the multi-sport event in 1904 and 1920. Part of the Olympic athletics programme , it was the fourth track and field throwing event to be contested at the Olympics, after the shot put , discus throw and hammer throw .
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Women's weight throw winners [2] [3]; Year Athlete Team Mark 1996: Dawn Ellerbe: South Carolina Gamecocks: 20.68m 67-10¼ 1997: Dawn Ellerbe: South Carolina Gamecocks
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Irish Whales: Pat McDonald and Matt McGrath of the Irish American Athletic Club, posing for a 1912 U.S. Olympic team photo. While it is not entirely clear when this moniker came into use, and was likely not used in the face of any of these giant men, it seems to have first appeared in print in 1937 in John Kieran's New York Times column, "Sports of the Times", written by John Drebinger (who ...
Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:
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