Sentence examples for throwing competitions from inspiring English sources

I had a better camp than he did, and I got to him mentally". Huffins said he had defeated Dvorak in games of one-upmanship that included running and the hurdles, and throwing competitions.

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.

At one quad, the children competed in a sprint, an endurance race, and jumping and throwing competitions.

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).

In an ax throwing competition against host Jimmy Fallon, the "mother!" actress got chopped down.

Andrews and Michaelsen are in the invite-only shot put competition at 5 20 p.m., while Cochran and Michaelsen are in the invite-only discus throw competition at 3 40 p.m. Cochran, Salem and Lawrence are in the open shot competition at 1 30 p.m.

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.

As a child, she said, she finished last in sprints and ball-throwing competitions at school.

His workers were rewarded with massive bonuses and parties where prostitutes and dwarf-throwing competitions were provided as entertainment.