The man killed by a flying weight thrown off-course during a Sunday high school track-and-field meet in Colorado Springs was ...

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 ...

Wade Langston was in the audience of the meet when he was struck and killed by a weight during the track and field event.

Wade Langston, 57, was attending his son's track meet in Colorado on Jan. 26 when the tragic accident unfolded ...

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 ...

The university was hosting a series of indoor track and field meets at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse. The meets were scheduled ...

Wade Langston was sitting in the audience at the Mountain Lion Fieldhouse on the University of Colorado’s Colorado Springs campus when a hammer weight thrown by a participant cleared ...

Wade Langston, 57, was watching the track and field meet when a hammer weight cleared barriers and struck him on Sunday ...

The so-called hammer in the hammer throw event is actually a ball on a chain. The ball weighs 16 pounds (7 kilograms) for men ...

A Colorado man was killed Sunday during a high school track meet after a hammer thrown by an athlete accidentally struck him.

A father has died in a freak accident while watching a high school track meet on Sunday (January 26) at The University of ...

Wade Langston was in the audience of the meet when he was struck and killed by a weight during the track and field event.