Daniel Haugh ( ; born May 3, 1995) is an American

track and field Track and field (or athletics in British English) is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name used in North America is derived from where the sport takes place, a ru ...

athlete competing in the

hammer throw The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and Javelin throw, javelin. The hammer used in this sport is not like any of the tools a ...

. He competed in the men's hammer throw event at the

2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

held in Tokyo, Japan. Competing for the Kennesaw State Owls track and field team, he won the gold medal in the men's hammer throw event at the

2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships The 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships was the 98th NCAA Division I Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championships and the 38th NCAA Division I Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at Mike A. Myers Stadium in ...

. In 2019, he also represented the United States in

The Match Europe v USA The Match Europe v USA was an international two-day outdoor track and field competition between the United States and Europe. It took place from 9–10 September 2019 in Minsk, Belarus, three weeks prior to the 2019 World Athletics Championships i ...

where he finished in 5th place in the men's hammer throw event. In that same year, he competed in the men's hammer throw at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global sport of athletics, athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athleti ...

held in Doha, Qatar. He did not qualify to compete in the final.

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* * * * * Living people 1995 births Male weight throwers American male hammer throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for the United States Alabama Crimson Tide men's track and field athletes Kennesaw State Owls men's track and field athletes Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic track and field athletes for the United States Athletes (track and field) at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in athletics (track and field) 21st-century American sportsmen NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics {{US-hammerthrow-athletics-bio-stub