Canada will send four defending champions to the World Athletics Championships for the first time in the competition’s history.

Hammer throwers Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, 800-metre runner Marco Arop and decathlete Pierce LePage are part of the 59-athlete Canadian team named by Athletics Canada on Thursday for next month’s championships in Tokyo.

Katzberg, from Nanaimo, B.C., and Rogers, from Richmond, B.C., are also the reigning Olympic champions in their events.

Edmonton’s Arop won silver in the 800 at the 2024 Paris Games, while LePage, from Whitby, Ont., was unable to compete in Paris due to a herniated disc.

Canada’s squad also includes the Olympic champion 4×100 sprint relay team of Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ont.), Toronto’s Aaron Brown and Brendon Rodney, and Jerome Blake of Kelowna, B.C., along with 2021 Olympic champion decathlete and 2023 world silver medallist Damian Warner (London, Ont.), 2021 Olympic 5,000-metre silver medallist Moh Ahmed of St. Catharines, Ont., and 2023 world championships women’s shot put runner-up Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S.

The world championships run Sept. 13-21.

“The athletes at the level where they’re winning medals and trying to defend from the Worlds or the Olympics before — it’s a tall order,” Athletics Canada’s Olympic head coach Glenroy Gilbert said in a statement. “But it’s one that I think our athletes are more than prepared for and the more than capable of doing.”

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The Canadian’s personal best throw measured 81.25 metres as he topped the podium in Budapest.Canada roster Aaron Brown — men’s 200 metres; 4×100 Abdullahi Hassan — men’s 800 Alyssa Marsh — women’s 4×400, mixed 4×400 Andre De Grasse — men’s 100/200, 4×100 Audrey Leduc — women’s 100/200, 4×100 Austin Cole — mixed 4×400 Ben Preisner — men’s marathon Brendon Rodney — men’s 4×100 Cam Levins — men’s marathon Camryn Rogers — women’s hammer throw Charles Philibert-Thiboutot — men’s 1,500 Christopher Morales Williams — men’s 400 Damian Warner — men’s decathlon Dianna Proctor — women’s 4×400, mixed 4×400 Donna Ntambue — women’s 4×100 Duan Asemota — men’s 4×100 Eliezer Adjibi — men’s 4×100 Emily Martin — women’s 4×100 Ethan Katzberg — men’s hammer throw Evan Dunfee — men’s 20 km/35 km race walk Favour Okpali — women’s 4×400, mixed 4×400 Foster Malleck — men’s 1,500 Gabriela DeBues-Stafford — women’s 1,500, 5,000 Grace Fetherstonhaugh — women’s 3,000 steeplechase Grace Konrad — women’s 4×400, mixed 4×400 Jacqueline Madogo — women’s 4×100 Jasneet Nijjar — women’s 4×400, mixed 4×400 Jazz Shukla — women’s 800 Jean-Simon Desgagnes — men’s 3,000 steeplechase Jennifer Elizarov — women’s pole vault Jerome Blake — men’s 100/200, 4×100 Jillian Weir — women’s hammer throw Julia Tunks — women’s discus throw Justin Kent — men’s marathon Justin O’Toole — men’s 800 Kate Current — women’s 1,500 Kieran Lumb — men’s 1,500 Lauren Gale — women’s 400, 4×400 Lucia Stafford — women’s 1,500 Madeline Price — women’s 400, mixed 400 Maeliss Trapeau — women’s 800 Malachi Murray — men’s 4×100 Marco Arop — men’s 800 Mariam Abdul-Rashid — women’s 100 hurdles Marie-Eloise Leclair — women’s 4×100 Matthew Erickson — men’s 800 Michael Roth — mixed 4×400 Moh Ahmed — men’s 5,000, 10,000 Natasha Wodak — women’s marathon Nathan George — mixed 4×400 Olivia Lundman — women’s 35 km race walk Pierce LePage — men’s decathlon Regan Yee — women’s 5,000 Rowan Hamilton — men’s hammer throw Sade McCreath — women’s 100, 4×100 Sarah Mitton — women’s shot put Savannah Sutherland — women’s 400 hurdles Tatiana Aholou — women’s 100 hurdles Zoe Sherar — women’s 400, 4×400