"throwing competition" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any competition involving throwing, such as a track and field event where participants compete to see who can throw the farthest with an object such as a javelin or discus. For example, "The school is hosting a throwing competition this weekend."
Finland is, after all, a country that also hosts the world fart championships, an international wife carrying contest and a mobile phone throwing competition.
This 'tossing' formed part of a dwarf throwing competition—a sport 'in which the aim of the competitors is to fling a dwarf over the furthest distance possible' (Millns 1996, 375).
Thereafter a near capacity crowd – the 500 empty seats were attributed in some quarters to the World Black Pudding Throwing Competition down the road at Ramsbottom – witnessed some exhilarating stroke-play briefly from Watson and Aaron Finch and then in the decisive 155-run partnership between Clarke and George Bailey, whose batting yesterday was the antithesis of his old Essex namesake.
As a way to work out the frustrations of modern life, the town of Savonlinna in southeast Finland holds an annual Mobile Phone Throwing Competition in order to recycle old handsets and have a little fun in the process.
When her peers went off to Florida or South Africa for warm-weather training, Jess preferred to stay close to home, shovelling snow off her local running track or braving the squally conditions to get a few throwing competitions under her belt.
Or, for a real test of strength, a tree-throwing competition?
In east Brisbane, punters got amongst it for $500 prize money at a pineapple-throwing competition.
Doug Gross, one of Eustachy's lawyers, said the infraction occurred when the coach paid $10 to the winner of a free-throw competition in practice in February.
"I'm going to read for five minutes, and then the free-throw competition can begin," Orringer said with a laugh, before sharing an excerpt from her latest book, "The Invisible Bridge".
BEAVERTON, Ore .— Keelin Godsey, a 28-year-old from Massachusetts who was seeking to become the first openly transgender athlete to represent the United States at the Olympics, failed to qualify for the London Games in the women's hammer throw competition held here Thursday.
As soon as the band gets off the bus, it will be thrown into competition.
