Word: shotputting
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...they kept the band working, Americans set record after record. Texas' strapping Randy Matson won the shotput and set an Olympic record of 67 ft. 10¾ in.; California's Bob Seagren soared to another new Olympic mark by clearing 17 ft. 8½ in. in the pole vault. In the short dashes, California's Jim Hines clocked 9.9 sec. in the men's 100 meters to tie his own pending world record, and Georgia's Wyomia Tyus won the women's 100 in 11 sec. flat. Then, in the field events, there...
...other throwing events, Ed Nosal accounted for 13 points with his first in the hammer and shotput and second in the discus. Nosal has failed to finish first only two or three times during both the indoor and outdoor seasons...
Nosal won three events--the hammer, discus, and shotput--setting meet marks in the hammer with a 171' throw and the discus with a 149'5" fling...
Junior Dick Benka won the shotput with a 54' 1/2" toss and Harvard's senior quartet finished second to Villanova's two-mile relay team in other collegiate highlights of the meet...
...Astrodome management, the synthetic sod means easy upkeep. When a section wears out, a new one can easily be laid in to replace it. Stanford University is now using AstroTurf for all its outdoor freshman track-and-field events, except shotput and discus, and finds that it drains so quickly that it can be used even in the rain. The Seattle school board, saddled with its dirt-covered Memorial Stadium in which half the games have been played in mud, has voted to spend $175,000 to cover it with artificial turf...