Tokyo Toss: Canada’s Ethan Katzberg like Camryn Rogers dominates to back-to-back world titles

Canada’s best medal threats seem to present themselves in patterns.

During the early 2000s, the women’s 100m hurdles were ultra-competitive on the global stage, with Perdita Felicien, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep, Jessica Zelinka, and Phylicia George all running well under 13 seconds, before the introduction of super spikes. Felicien was a world champion, and Lopes-Schliep earned an Olympic bronze.

Shortly after, the women’s 1500m was thick with talent when Hilary Stellingwerff, Nicole Sifuentes, Kate Van Buskirk, and Sheila Reid were running internationally, to name a few.

In the days of Bruny Surin, Glenroy Gilbert, Robert Esmie and Donovan Bailey, during the mid-to-late 1990s, it seemed the sprint team could do no wrong. They won gold in the 4 x 100 metre relays at the Atlanta Olympics, Bailey won individual gold in the 100m at the same event. Surin and Bailey share the same time of 9.84 seconds as the national record.

𝗘𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡 𝗞𝗔𝗧𝗭𝗕𝗘𝗥𝗚 𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗦 🥇 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗔 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗-𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗙 𝟴𝟰.𝟳𝟬𝗠 – 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗣𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣, 𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗔 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗔𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗! 🇨🇦🔥

Ethan throws 84.70m, and successfully defends his hammer throw title for TEAM CANADA! 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/wQZiTq5l3k

— Athletics Canada (@AthleticsCanada) September 16, 2025

Fast forward to 2024 and 2025, and Canada is now hot in the hammer throw — why not? First, Camryn Rogers from Richmond, BC (Greater Vancouver) and Ethan Katzberg from Nanaimo, BC win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. They did it again at the 2025 Tokyo World Athletics Championships. Both defending their 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships golds.

Rogers set a new Canadian and North American record at 80.51m. Katzberg did the same with his Tokyo toss of 84.70m.

Katzberg’s championship throw Tuesday night in Tokyo was something the World Athletics Championships had never seen.

The now two-time world champion’s second throw disappeared into the night sky and set a North American and World Athletics Championships record. 

GOLD FOR CANADA 🇨🇦

CAMRYN ROGERS HAS DONE IT AGAIN

Rogers becomes the first Canadian ever to successfully defend a world athletics individual title. And she did it with the second-best throw ever in the sport. Absolutely dominant performance. pic.twitter.com/4MvDOHGFqo

— Devin Heroux (@Devin_Heroux) September 15, 2025

No one has ever launched a hammer at Worlds as far as Katzberg’s golden throw.

He also had the second and third longest throws of the night (83.73 metres and 83.07 metres, respectively). 

Results

Tuesday, September 16 – Final

Monday, September 15 – Qualification