Nanaimo, B.C.’s Ethan Katzberg has gained Canada’s first gold medal on the 2023 World Athletics Championships, within the males’s hammer throw. He’s the primary Canadian man to win a world championship medal within the hammer throw occasion.
On the second-to-last throw, Katzberg etched his identify into Canadian historical past by recording a private finest and nationwide document of 81.25 metres, astonishing the Hungarian crowd. He surged forward of Hungary’s Bence Halasz and into the gold medal place.
“I knew it was going to be a big throw when it left my fingers, however I had no thought it will attain 81.25m,” stated Katzberg, who established two nationwide data on his method to the highest of the rostrum. “To win gold in a rustic famend for the hammer throw and in entrance of an enormous crowd—it’s particular.”
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Upon studying of his victory, Katzberg swiftly made his method to his coach, Canadian Olympian Dylan Armstrong, to have fun the triumph.
“Dylan has been my coach, however he’s additionally been my mentor and somebody I’ve regarded as much as,” says Katzberg. “He and Anatolij Bondarčuk have shared a lot data with me, and so they have ready me properly for this second.”
Katzberg ventured into the hammer throw seven years in the past, after watching his sister compete within the occasion. He was coached by his dad for a number of years till Armstrong took him beneath his wing in Kamloops, B.C.
Final 12 months on the 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Camryn Rogers gained silver within the girls’s hammer throw, turning into the primary Canadian to earn a medal within the occasion.
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