club throw

The club throw is an athletic throwing event where the object is to throw a wooden club. The event is one of the four throwing events, along with discus, javelin and shot put of the Summer Paralympics. It is the Paralympic equivalent of the hammer throw. The club throw was introduced for both men and women at the first Summer Paralympic Games in 1960. It was dropped from the women's programme from the 1992 Paralympics in Barcelona but was reinstated for London 2012.