shot puts

Sphere throwing events

Shot puts are the plural of shot put, the track and field event in which athletes throw a heavy metal ball as far as possible from a circle.

The term can refer to multiple instances of the event or to the spherical weights themselves: The shot puts were lined up by weight class.

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Hurling weighted ball on wire

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Long-distance footrace

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