COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A 57-year-old man died Sunday after he was struck by a weight from a weight throw event that cleared a certified barrier during a track and field event at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. The El Paso County Coroner's Office identified the man as Wade Langston.
A hammer thrown by an athlete during a track and field meet at a Colorado university hit and killed a spectator, officials reported. The fatal accident took place at about 9:30 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 26, at a high school meet hosted by the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, university officials said in a news release.
The unfortunate man died trying to protect his wife and son from the flying hammer during the competition at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs campus
A man died after he was hit by the object over the weekend at a track meet at the University of Colorado's Colorado Springs campus.
During a high school track meet at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs a participant in the meet made an errant
A spectator killed by an errant weight in a hammer throw event at a youth track and field meet was a dedicated father and husband with a great sense of humor, relatives said. The accident Sunday at the Colorado United Track Club meet at the University of Colorado's Colorado Springs campus killed Wade Langston,
The victim was the father of one of the competing athletes from Vista Ridge High School who died protecting his wife and son from the 25 lb hammer, police said.
The father of a Colorado United Track Club athlete was killed Sunday after a throwing hammer hurled by a high school athlete cleared the indoor meet’s protective barriers and flew into the crowd.
A “loving father” attending his son’s track meet has been identified as the spectator accidentally killed by a hammer at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs on Sunday. Wade Langston, 57, was fatally struck by a hammer during a track and field meet held at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse campus for high school students across Colorado,
A 57-year-old man at a Colorado Springs meet died when a hammer thrown by a participant cleared barriers and struck him.
A spectator at a Colorado high school track and field meet was killed after a hammer thrown by an athlete accidentally flew into the crowd and struck the man.