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Sporting Digest: Athletics

Friday 16 April 1993 23:02 BST
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UWE BEYER, West Germany's former hammer world-record holder, died on Thursday at the age of 48, after suffering a heart attack while playing tennis on holiday in Turkey. He took a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and broke the world record with a throw of 74.3 metres seven years later.

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