Kostas Zaltos, a graduate student from Kilikis, Greece, capped his storied Gophers track career last week in Eugene, Ore. with an NCAA Outdoor Track and Field championship in the hammer throw. His ...

EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Kostas Zaltos won the NCAA hammer throw and fellow Greek thrower Angelos Mantzouranis was second to help Minnesota take the Day 1 lead at the outdoor track and field championships ...

The Gopher men's hammer throwers are the best in the country. At the NCAA championships last week, they pulled off an improbable 1-2 finish. If it wasn't one, it was going to be the other. The NCAA ...

With the outdoor NCAA championships nearing, Minnesota’s Kostas Zaltos and Angelos Mantzouranis are already generating near-mythological feats of strength. Both Zaltos and Mantzouranis threw ...

Kade McCall‘s sport of choice is the hammer throw, where an athlete tosses a metal ball that is attached to a steel wire by grips, with the entire 16-pound device being called the “hammer.” Like ...

An errant weight thrown by a competitor in a hammer throw event struck and killed a spectator at a youth track and field meet in Colorado, according to officials at the university where the ...