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He threw a 81.25 m (266 ft 6 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) on his fifth throw, setting another new national record and winning the gold medal and world title. [11] Katzberg's victory made him both the youngest ever men’s hammer throw medallist and world champion, and the first Canadian man to win a medal in the event.
Discus throw: 62.72 m Carmen Ionesco: 23 August 1979 Montreal, Quebec, Canada 64.78 m [g] 26 May 1976 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Hammer throw: 78.62 m Camryn Rogers: 26 May 2023 USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix Westwood, United States [78] Javelin throw: 64.83 m Elizabeth Gleadle: 10 May 2015 Golden Grand Prix: Kawasaki, Japan [79] Heptathlon: 6808 ...
His personal best of 79.13 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Lethbridge, Alberta, stood as the Canadian record until 2023. He represented Canada at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. With a top 12 finish at the 2008 Summer Olympics, he became the first Canadian in 84 years to reach the Olympic hammer throw final. [ 2 ]
Camryn Rogers (born June 7, 1999) is a Canadian athlete specializing in the hammer throw. [5] She is the reigning Olympic and World champion in that discipline, in both cases the first Canadian woman to win that title, and only the second Canadian woman to win gold at the World Athletics Championships in any discipline.
During the 2008 season, Frizell broke the Canadian senior women's hammer throw record four times and improved her personal best by over three meters. Her personal best throw of 70.94 meters was in July 2008 at the Canadian Track and Field Championships in Windsor , Ontario . [ 3 ]
Hammer throw Dylan Armstrong (born January 15, 1981) is a Canadian athletics coach and retired competitive shot putter . He is the 2008 Olympic bronze medallist, a two-time World Athletics Championships medallist, a two-time Pan American Games champion, and the 2010 Commonwealth Games champion in that discipline.
Discus throw: 72.34 m ≠ Ben Plucknett United States 7 July 1981 Stockholm, Sweden 71.32 m # Ben Plucknett United States 4 June 1983 Prefontaine Classic: Eugene, United States Hammer throw: 84.38 m Ethan Katzberg Canada 20 April 2024 Kip Keino Classic: Nairobi, Kenya [50] [51] Javelin throw: 91.29 m Breaux Greer United States 21 June 2007
Harold Willers (born September 2, 1958) is a Canadian former athlete who specialised in the hammer throw. [1]A Victoria, British Columbia native, Willers attended Claremont Secondary School and took up the hammer throw as a varsity athlete at Simon Fraser University, where he set a record throw of 67.28 m and won three NAIA titles.