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Ethan Katzberg (born April 5, 2002) is a Canadian hammer thrower. He is the reigning Olympic and world champion in that event, winning gold in Paris at the 2024 Summer Olympics and in Budapest at the 2023 World Championships .
After cleaning up a first round foul, Katzberg led five auto qualifiers. It took 75.25m to get into the final. [2] In the finals, Nowicki started with a 77.42m, Kokhan topped that with 78.54m and Winkler put himself in position with 77.92m. Then, Katzberg stepped into the ring and launched his first throw of the finals at 84.12 m (275 ft 11 in).
Through two days of competition, Katzberg landed 6 legal throws, all of them more than a metre longer than he had ever thrown before. He took home a World Championship and set his National Record twice. He became the first athlete from NACAC to win a medal at a Men's Hammer throw in the World Athletics Championships. [2]
The reigning Olympic champion John Flanagan won the event with a throw of 46.75 m with a zero handicap. Albert Johnson, sixth in the main event, came second with 46.20 m off a 30 ft handicap. James Mitchel, a weight throw medallist in 1904, won the bronze with 46.16 m given a 23 ft handicap. [5]
The men's hammer throw event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 2 and 4 August 2021 at the Japan National Stadium. [1] Approximately 35 athletes were expected to compete; the exact number was dependent on how many nations used universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through distance or ranking (no universality places were used in 2016).
Hammer throw: 82.52 m Lance Deal United States 7 September 1996 Milan, Italy 82.71 m Rudy Winkler United States 20 June 2021 US Olympic Trials: Eugene, United States [61] 84.38 m Ethan Katzberg Canada 20 April 2024 Kip Keino Classic: Nairobi, Kenya [62] [63] Javelin throw: 93.07 m Anderson Peters Grenada 13 May 2022 Doha Diamond League: Doha ...
The Men's Hammer Throw event at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium on August 15 and August 17. With reigning champion Ivan Tsikhan banned from competition for doping offences, the 2008 Olympic gold and silver medallists Primož Kozmus and Krisztián Pars were the favourites in the event. Pars entered the ...
A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 3 qualified athletes in the men's hammer throw event if all athletes meet the entry standard during the qualifying period. (The limit of 3 has been in place since the 1930 Olympic Congress.) The qualifying standard was 77.00 metres. The qualifying period was from 1 May 2015 to 11 July 2016.