Canadian throwers stole the show in 2023 with historic world athletics performances
Canada threw itself onto the track and field map — quite literally — with some history-making performances at the 2023 world athletics championships.
Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers won the men’s and women’s hammer throw world titles in August, and Sarah Mitton added a silver medal in the women’s shot put in Budapest, Hungary.
Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., was the first Canadian to win a hammer throw world title, with Rogers of Richmond, B.C., being the first Canadian woman to do so. Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S., was the first Canadian woman to medal at worlds in shot put.
“For Canada to come out on top at worlds this year shows that we are not just sort of in the mix of it,” sai 24-year-old Rogers said. “We are fighting and battling and getting ourselves up there into the thick of it onto the podium.