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hammer

Throwing event in track and field athletics. The hammer is a spherical weight attached to a wire with a handle. The competitors grip the handle with both hands, spin the hammer in a circular motion about them several times, and throw it as far as they can. The senior men's hammer weighs 7.26 kg/16 lb and may originally have been a blacksmith's hammer. Women and junior men throw lighter weights.

The first ever Olympic women's hammer event took place at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.

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‘Glorious First of June’ 1087 1486 167 BC 1783 1807 1839 714 715 716 717 732 Abinger Common aliquot scaling auction Aztec Aztec art barrel organ Berlin Wall			It makes me dreadfully nervous to see that big hammer pounding so near my head. Ozma of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context Everyone turned round and peered at the pathway which wound across the plain below, along which was indeed walking, at his own huge stride and with a hammer on his shoulder, Simeon the smith. The Innocence Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context We would find the hammer for him, and then he would have lost sight of the mark he had made on the wall, where the nail was to go in, and each of us had to get up on the chair, beside him, and see if we could find it; and we would each discover it in a different place, and he would call us all fools, one after another, and tell us to get down. Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing Of The Dog) by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context			Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick Hamilton, Charles Hamilton, Edith Hamilton, Elizabeth Hamilton, Emma, Lady Hamilton, Gavin Hamilton, George Heard Hamilton, Iain Ellis Hamilton, James Hamilton, Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Neil Hamilton, Patrick Hamilton, Richard Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton, William Hamilton, William Rowan Hamitic languages Hamlet Hamlin, Hannibal Hamlin, Talbot Hamlisch, Marvin Hamlyn, Paul Bertrand Hamm Hammarskjöld, Dag hammer Hammer v. Dagenhart Hammer, Armand Hammerfest hammerhead Hammerklavier Hammerschmidt, Andreas Hammershøi, Vilhelm Hammersmith and Fulham Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar, II Hammerton, John Alexander Hammett, Dashiell Hammick, Dalziel Llewellyn Hamming, Richard W Hammon, Jupiter Hammond Hammond organ Hammond, Blaine, Jr Hammond, George H Hammond, Joan Hood Hammond, John Hammond, John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond, Norman Hammond, Robert Hammond, Wally			hammams Hamman sign Hamman's disease Hamman's syndrome Hamman-Miller-Beauchamp-Deeble Incorporated Hamman-Rich syndrome Hamman-Rich syndrome Hamman-Rich syndrome Hamman-Rich syndrome Hammar, Hawr al- Hammar, Lake Hammarby Idrottsförening hammarite Hammarkullen Hammarskjold Hammarskjöld Hammarskjold Middle School Orchestra Hammarskjöld, Dag Hammarskjöld, Dag Hammarskjold, Dag Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Dag Hjalmar Hammarskjold, Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjöld, Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammath hammed hammed hammed hammed Hammedatha Hammel Green and Abrahamson hammer Hammer & Tongs Hammer (substitution) Hammer (substitution) Hammer (substitution) Hammer (substitution) Hammer (substitution) Hammer and Anvils Various Occupations Club Hammer and sickel Hammer and sickel hammer and sickle hammer and sickle hammer and sickle hammer and sickles hammer and sickles hammer and tongs hammer at hammer away hammer ax hammer beam hammer beam hammer beams hammer beams Hammer blow hammer brace Hammer break Hammer Debounce Device hammer down hammer down Hammer drill Hammer drill

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