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<\/p>\nCanadian hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg broke two records on the way to his second consecutive world title win on Tuesday at Tokyo’s National Stadium.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old from Nanaimo, B.C., had his second throw travel 84.70 metres, breaking both the championship record (83.63) as well as his own previous Canadian record (84.38).<\/p>\n
The championship record had stood for 18 years before Katzberg unleashed the best throw of the 2025 season. His winning mark was 1.93m longer than his closest competitor.<\/p>\n
Germany’s Merlin Hummel (82.77) won the silver medal while Hungary’s Bence Halasz (82.69) took bronze.<\/p>\n
Katzberg’s win completes yet another Canadian sweep of hammer throw gold after compatriot Camryn Rogers won her event on Monday. The Canadian duo have both won back-to-back world titles and were both crowned Olympic champions at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n
Canada now has three medals\u00a0at this year’s world championship, the hammer throw golden sweep plus men’s race walker Evan Dunfee\u00a0gold-medal win on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Arop moves on to 800m semis<\/p>\n
Marco Arop began the defence of his 800m world title by qualifying in the opening-round heats. The Edmontonian ran to an automatic qualification for the semifinals with a third-place finish in his heat, crossing the line in one minute 45.39 seconds.<\/p>\n
Fellow Canadians Abdullahi Hassan, Justin O’Toole, and Matthew Erickson did not advance from the heats.<\/p>\n
WATCH | Aaron Brown, Perdita Felicien discuss Marco Arop’s chances of reaching 800m podium: <\/p>\n
How does Marco Arop stack up against the field at 2025 worlds?<\/p>\n
Hosts Aaron Brown and Perdita Felicien react to Marco Arop’s up and down season, along with his chances at medalling in the men’s 800m event in Tokyo. <\/p>\n
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon ran a blazing 3:52.15 to win her third consecutive world title in the women’s 1,500m. Fellow Kenyan Dorcas Ewoi had a personal best time of 3:54.92 for silver while Great Britain Jessica Hull (3:55.16) took bronze.<\/p>\n
Toronto’s Gabriela DeBues-Stafford (3:59.65) finished 11th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canadian hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg broke two records on the way to his second consecutive world title win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-148175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}