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Olympic history: Women's hammer

Steve Smythe looks at the history of events at the Olympics and this time focuses on the women’s hammer

World Championships: Women's hammer

As Beijing beckons, we continue our event-by-event World Championships history series by looking at the women's hammer

World Championships: Men's hammer

A look back at the men's hammer at the IAAF World Championships

Mark Dry to lead GB team at European Cup Winter Throws

Commonwealth medallist on six-strong Great Britain & Northern Ireland team for event in Portugal

Power exercises

Commonwealth hammer bronze medallist Mark Dry gives you five of his favourite power exercises

Meet the hammer Heads

AW learns more about the talented children of Olympic thrower Paul Head

China's Zhang Wenxiu fails doping test

Three-time world hammer bronze medallist stripped of 2014 Asian Games gold after testing positive for banned substance

Anita Wlodarczyk breaks hammer world record

Polish thrower sets a world record of 79.58m at ISTAF meeting in Berlin

Mark Dry goes for third Scottish hammer title at Kilmarnock

A look ahead to this weekend's Scottish Senior Championships at Kilmarnock

Nick Miller has sights set on Glasgow 2014

The US-based hammer thrower continues to impress and says the thought of this summer's Commonwealth Games powered his winter training

Rachel Hunter encouraged by 62.76m throw

Thrower moves to third on Scottish all-time hammer list with Commonwealth Games standard

Mark Dry - Hammer training tips

Britain's top-ranked hammer thrower shares a few secrets to his success

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