China&rsquo;s Zhang Jiale threw 75.14m* to break the world U20 hammer record at the Sparkassen Hammerwurf-Meeting, a World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger event, in Fr&auml;nkisch-Crumbach, Germany, on Sunday (8).
The 18-year-old, who won the world U20 title in Lima last year, beat the previous world U20 record of 73.43m set by the 2021 world U20 champion Silja Kosonen of Finland in Vaasa in 2021.
As well as adding 1.71m to the previous world U20 record, Zhang improved her own previous best achieved in April by almost three metres to finish second in a competition won by her compatriot Zhao Jie, the Olympic bronze medallist.
Zhang&rsquo;s record-breaking throw came in the second round of the competition and she backed it up with marks of 71.56m, 70.61m and 69.62m.
Zhao won with a PB of 76.60m from the third round and all five of her valid attempts surpassed 75 metres &ndash; her series also including throws of 76.11m, 75.99m, 75.34m and 75.04m.
Great Britain&rsquo;s Anna Purchase was third with 71.77m.
Germany&rsquo;s Merlin Hummel won the men&rsquo;s competition with a PB of 81.23m.
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*Subject to the usual ratification procedure 
<h2>Fabbri and Andersen among winners in Lucca</h2>
Leonardo Fabbri became the first athlete to surpass 22 metres in the shot put this season, while Brooke Andersen was just five centimetres off her own world hammer lead at the Lucca International Meeting, a World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger event, in Italy on Sunday (8).
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Leonardo Fabbri at the Lucca International Meeting (&copy; Organisers)
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Home star Fabbri, the world silver medallist, threw 22.31m to win the shot put ahead of USA's Adrian Piperi (21.96m).&nbsp;
USA's 2022 world champion Andersen managed 79.24m to win the hammer, going close to the world lead of 79.29m she set in Arizona last month.
Olympic champion Thea LaFond leapt 14.45m to top the triple jump, while 2022 world gold medallist Eleanor Patterson cleared 1.95m to win the high jump.
Other winners included Phanuel Kipkosgei Koech in the 1500m (3:32.26) and Emmanuel Eseme in the 100m (10.05).
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China’s Zhang Jiale threw 75.14m* to break the world U20 hammer record at the Sparkassen Hammerwurf-Meeting, a World Athletics Continental Tour Challenger event

Zhang throws world U20 hammer record in Fränkisch-Crumbach

A look back at the key moments of 2024 in the throwing disciplines

2024 review: throws

The World Athletics U20 Championships Lima 24 will take place between 27-31 August, with more than 1700 athletes from 134 teams set to take part.
Here we take a look at the women&rsquo;s and men&rsquo;s jumps events at the Estadio Atletico de la Videna.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s shot put</h2>
Akaoma Odeluga and Gracelyn Leiseth look tough to beat in the women&rsquo;s shot put and will surely have their sights on a US one-two in Lima.
Leiseth won the national U20 title ahead of Odeluga to complete a throws double in Eugene, one day on from her discus win. But it&rsquo;s Odeluga who tops the shot put entry list with the PB of 18.13m she set to finish eighth at the US Olympic Team Trials and prior to that she threw 18.11m at the Southeastern Conference. Only one other U20 woman has surpassed 18 metres since 2015 and that&rsquo;s world U20 leader Ashley Erasmus, who isn&rsquo;t entered for Lima.
Leiseth is next on the entry list thanks to the 17.70m she threw in May. Joining them in the hunt for medals will be Australia&rsquo;s Marley Raikiwasa, who threw 16.84m in May, and China&rsquo;s Tian Xinyi, who set a PB of 16.35m in March.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s shot put</h2>
Yannick Rolvink leads the entry list by more than a metre thanks to the Dutch U20 record of 21.81m he set with the 6kg implement on home soil last month. He also threw 20.46m to win the U20 event at the FBK Games and has surpassed 19 metres during seven other competitions this year.
Should he be near his top form then Rolvink looks on track for gold, but the battle for the other medals could be fierce. Ben Smith won the US U20 title with a PB of 20.57m and will hope to follow in the footsteps of his compatriot Tarik Robinson-O'Hagan, who won the world U20 title in Cali in 2022.
German U20 champion Georg Harpf threw 20.61m indoors and followed that with 20.02m outdoors in May, while Rolvink&rsquo;s teammate Jarno van Daalen and Finland&rsquo;s Aatu Kangasniemi have respective bests of 20.40m and 20.50m.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s discus</h2>
The top four women on the entry list have all surpassed 57 metres this season and lead the medal hunt in Lima. Canada&rsquo;s Julia Tunks threw 62.07m in Ramona in May, improving on the PB of 59.84m she set there two months prior, and she has also thrown beyond 59 metres in four other competitions so far this year.&nbsp;
Germany&rsquo;s Curly Brown, China&rsquo;s Huang Jingru and Australia&rsquo;s Marley Raikiwasa &ndash; also a medal contender in the shot put &ndash; are also in PB form this year. European U20 champion Brown threw 57.66m in May, while Huang managed 57.52m in June and Raikiwasa &ndash; who is now based in the US at Auburn University and finished ninth in Cali in 2022 &ndash; threw 57.42m in May.
Gracelyn Leiseth, who set a PB of 54.72m to win the first part of a US U20 throws title double, will be hoping to do enough to again claim two medals.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s discus</h2>
Ukraine&rsquo;s Mykhailo Brudin returns to the world U20 stage, looking to build on the bronze he claimed in Cali two years ago.
Since that medal win, secured with a 63.30m throw, Brudin has become a European U20 champion and improved his PB with the 1.750kg implement to 66.58m when winning that continental title. His focus so far this year has been on throwing the senior implement, but he still managed 63.00m during the first of his two outings with the 1.750kg discus so far this year.
If the 19-year-old can get near his PB form then he will be the man to beat, but looking to challenge will be Jamaica&rsquo;s Shaiquan Selbourne Dunn, who has thrown more than two metres farther than his rivals this season. His best is the 65.48m he threw to win at the ISSA/Grace Kennedy Boys and Girls Championships in Kingston in March.
Among those looking to fight for podium places will be China&rsquo;s Jiang Zehao and South Africa&rsquo;s Juan Marais, who have both thrown beyond 63 metres this year, plus Australia&rsquo;s Ethan Ayodele, who threw a PB of 62.92m in April.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s hammer</h2>
China&rsquo;s Zhang Jiale might only be 17 but she already sits third on the world U20 all-time list. And if in Lima she achieves a performance anywhere near the PB of 72.25m that put her there, she will challenge the championship record set by the world U20 record-holder, Silja Kosonen.
Kosonen set the world U20 record of 73.43m in 2021, the same year she won the world U20 title with that championship record of 71.64m. While Zhang has only surpassed that mark once in her career so far, she threw 67.33m at the Chinese Championships in June and won the Asian U20 title with 66.79m.
Only one of her opponents in Lima has a PB beyond that &ndash; European U20 champion Valentina Savva of Cyprus, who finished fifth at the 2021 World U20 Championships and fourth at the 2022 edition, and will be hoping to go at least one better to make it on to the podium this time. She set her PB of 67.87m in February.
Germany&rsquo;s Johanna Marrwitz has a PB of 66.44m, while Hungary&rsquo;s Villo Viszkeleti will also be on the hunt for a medal after her PB of 65.13m in June.
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s hammer</h2>
Two years on from his bronze medal win in Cali, Iosif Kesidis of Cyprus starts as favourite. The now 19-year-old threw 76.32m to get his medal in 2022 and already this year he has improved the national U20 record to 81.07m, also throwing 79.80m and 78.03m in his two other competitions with the 6kg implement.
His closest challengers look to be Hungary&rsquo;s Armin Szabados and Georgios Papanastasiou of Greece, who have respectively thrown 77.90m and 77.77m this year. It was Papanastasiou&rsquo;s compatriot Ioannis Korakidis who won with 79.11m in Cali, when Kesidis claimed bronze.
Aatu Kangasniemi &ndash; also a contender in the shot put &ndash; is the fourth athlete in the field to have surpassed 75 metres this season, his 75.78m PB having been set last month.
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<h2>Women&rsquo;s javelin</h2>
As the world U20 record-holder, China&rsquo;s Yan Ziyi is the favourite for this title.
At the age of just 15, Yan threw 64.28m in Hangzhou in April to improve both the ratified world U20 record of 63.86m set by Cuba&rsquo;s Yulenmis Aguilar in 2015 and the unratified 63.96m achieved by Elina Tzengko of Greece in 2020.
Now 16, Yan followed that mark with performances including 62.96m to win the Chinese U20 title and 63.51m to win at the Chinese Championships. The World U20 Championships record is the 63.52m Adriana Vilagos achieved at the last edition of the event in 2022.
Looking to join Yan on the podium will be Germany&rsquo;s Mirja Lukas, who threw 58.70m last month, plus Finland&rsquo;s Rebecca Nelimarkka (56.70m PB) and Asian U20 champion Chu Pin-Hsun of Chinese Taipei (56.66m PB).
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<h2>Men&rsquo;s javelin</h2>
The men&rsquo;s javelin contest could come down to a battle between the 80-metre-plus throwers.
Slovenia&rsquo;s Tom Tersek threw a national U20 record of 80.87m to win the Slovenian title at the end of June and the 17-year-old backed it up with 79.44m to win the national U20 title a couple of weeks later.
China&rsquo;s Wang Xiaobo, on the other hand, set his own national U20 record of 80.61m last year and this year his best is the 76.84m he threw to finish third at the Chinese Championships &ndash; his last contest before Lima.
Chinese Taipei&rsquo;s 17-year-old Huang Chao-Hong threw his PB of 76.31m last year and has a best of 74.90m in 2024, while Ukraine&rsquo;s Illia Saievskyi will look to build on the 75.80m PB he set in May.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

World Athletics U20 Championships

A look at the women's and men's throwing events

WU20 Lima 24 preview: throws

Camryn Rogers matched the achievement of Canadian teammate and fellow hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg, adding the Olympic gold medal to her world title at the Paris 2024 Games on Tuesday (6).
Rogers won with 76.97m after battling brilliantly throughout, first seeing off the challenge of China&rsquo;s Zhao Jie, who eventually took bronze with 74.27m, and then from USA&rsquo;s Annette Echikunwoke, who claimed silver with 75.48m.
Rogers took an early lead with 74.11m, but it was short lived because Zhao responded with 74.27m in round two to take the lead. Rogers recorded a foul in that round, but responded with 74.47m with her next throw to regain the lead.
It was short lived, though, as Echikunwoke, the surprise US champion, sent her hammer out to 75.48m to leapfrog Rogers and Zhao.
Rogers came close to that with 75.44m in round four, but she then produced her winning throw of 76.97m in round five to put the lead out of sight from her opponents.
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Echikunwoke and Zhao held on to silver and bronze respectively, while three-time Olympic champion Anita Wlodarczyk came within four centimetres of the podium, placing fourth with 74.23m.
The Pole finished just ahead of Finnish duo Silja Kosonen (74.04m) and Krista Tervo (73.83m), which Azerbaijan&rsquo;s Hanna Skydan was seventh with 73.66m.
USA&rsquo;s 2019 world champion DeAnna Price, who has thrown 77.16m this season, finished down in 11th place with 71.00m, while European champion Sara Fantini was one place lower.
No women from North America had ever won an Olympic hammer medal before today, but the continent landed gold and silver in Paris. Zhao, meanwhile, adds to China&rsquo;s Olympic medal tally and extends a medal streak that began in 2008.
&ldquo;To be on that podium and to hear the national anthem is something that I&rsquo;ve dreamed of for so long,&rdquo; said Rogers. &ldquo;I started throwing 12-and-a-half years ago, the summer of the London 2102 Olympics. Watching our Canadian women out there, doing their absolute best and representing our country so well, made me want to be here one day.
&ldquo;That fifth round throw was a do-or-die moment,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;To be able to do it when it counts, in that throw, and to see my coach cheering from the stands &ndash; this is the kind of thing we&rsquo;ve been training for. I&rsquo;m just glad I was able to make him proud in that moment of having all of our training lead to this.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics 
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Camryn Rogers (CAN)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">76.97m</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Annette Echikunwoke (USA)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">75.48m SB</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Zhao Jie (CHN)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">74.27m</td>
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The XXXIII Olympic Games

Camryn Rogers matched the achievement of her Canadian teammate and fellow hammer thrower Ethan Katzberg by adding an Olympic gold medal to the world title she won last year.

World hammer champion Rogers becomes Olympic gold medallist in Paris

Ethan Katzberg became the youngest man ever to become a world and Olympic hammer champion, blowing the competition apart at the Paris 2024 Games with an opening throw of 84.12m that stood up as the best of the night.
The 22-year-old Canadian added the Olympic gold medal to the world title he won in Budapest last year, while Hungary's Bence Halasz took silver and Ukraine's Mykhaylo Kokhan claimed bronze.
Rather fittingly, defending champion Wojciech Nowicki got proceedings under way, kicking off the final with 77.42m. Home thrower Yann Chaussinand was next up and the Frenchman sent his hammer out to 78.99m, which briefly put him in the lead until it was ruled to be a foul several moments later.
Kokhan&rsquo;s opening effort of 78.54m was then promoted to the leading mark, but it didn&rsquo;t last long. Katzberg, ninth in the throwing order, opened his account with a stunning 84.12m effort, the second-best throw in Olympic history and the second-best throw of the Canadian&rsquo;s career after the 84.38m PB he set at altitude in Nairobi earlier this year.
More significantly, it was farther than any other finalist had ever thrown in their life.
It meant that if anyone wanted to wrestle gold away from Katzberg&rsquo;s grasp, they&rsquo;d have to perform as they never had done before. Spoiler alert: no one did.
Norway&rsquo;s Eivind Henriksen, who took a surprise silver in Tokyo three years ago, arrived in Paris with a season&rsquo;s best of just 76.51m. After throwing a season&rsquo;s best of 77.14m in qualifying, he improved on that with 79.18m in round two, putting him third behind Kokhan&rsquo;s round-two effort of 79.39m.
World bronze medallist Halasz was another to improve in the second round, throwing 78.84m. Katzberg&rsquo;s second-round throw was a foul, but he still led by almost five metres.
Chaussinand recorded another foul in round two, but he pulled one out of the bag in round three with his 77.38m putting him in eighth place &ndash; just enough to earn three more throws.
Five-time world champion Pawel Fajdek, who hasn&rsquo;t always had the best of times at the Olympic Games, threw 78.57m in round three to advance safely through to the second half of the competition.
Katzberg landed another throw comfortably behind the 80-metre line, which was initially ruled to be a foul but was later credited as 82.28m. Halasz, meanwhile, improved to 79.97m to move into second place.
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Fajdek improved slightly to 78.80m in round four, though it wasn&rsquo;t enough to move any higher in the standings, keeping the Pole in fifth. No one else improved in rounds four or five.
Nowicki&rsquo;s reign as Olympic champion officially came to an end in the final round as the Pole finished his series with 75.92m, no improvement on the opening throw of 77.42m that put him in seventh. It was the first time the 35-year-old had ever failed to reach a podium in a world, European or Olympic final.
His teammate Fajdek also didn&rsquo;t improve in the final round, finishing fifth, though this was a markedly better result than he achieved at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics when he failed to reach the final.
Moments later it was Kokhan&rsquo;s turn for his final throw. The Ukrainian sent his hammer hurtling towards the 80-metre line, but it came up slightly short at 79.24m, no improvement on his second-round effort of 79.39m. His bronze medal was an upgrade on the fourth-place position he achieved at the last Games in Tokyo.
Halasz also ended strongly with 79.82m, 15cm shy of his best throw of the night, to secure the silver medal for Hungary &ndash; his best ever finish at a global championships and a memorable way to mark the 27th birthday he was celebrating today.
Katzberg, now confirmed as Olympic champion, stepped into the circle one last time, and once again sent his hammer flying out beyond the 80-metre line. It wasn&rsquo;t an improvement on his best mark, and it was ruled a foul, but he had already made history by becoming the first Canadian to win an Olympic hammer title.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Ethan Katzberg (CAN)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">84.12m</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Bence Halasz (HUN)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">79.97m</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Mykhaylo Kokhan (UKR)</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">79.39m</td>
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Ethan Katzberg became the youngest man ever to become a world and Olympic hammer champion

Katzberg takes Olympic hammer title in Paris with monster opening throw

<h2>Men's hammer</h2>
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&bull; World champion Ethan Katzberg is undefeated this year and has the world-leading throw of 84.38m &bull; Defending champion Wojciech Nowicki has finished no lower than third in any competition from 2019 onwards &bull; Pawel Fajdek has won five world titles but has not yet won an Olympic gold 
At the time of the last Olympic Games, <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/canada/ethan-katzberg-14809348" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ethan Katzberg</a> was 19 years old and preparing to compete at the World U20 Championships in Nairobi.
He may not have had the best experience in the Kenyan capital &ndash; he recorded three no throws in the final &ndash; but just two years later he produced one of the biggest surprises of the World Championships in Budapest to take gold with a Canadian record of 81.25m.
He has been undefeated since then, showing that his Budapest win was no fluke. He rounded out his 2023 campaign by winning the Pan-American title,&nbsp; then opened his 2024 season with a world-leading North American record of 84.38m.
Katzberg has won all nine of his competitions this season, throwing beyond 80 metres in seven of those. His final competition before heading to the Games was a 81.87m win in Szekesfehervar, where he beat pretty much all of the Olympic medal contenders.
Canada has never had a top-eight finisher in the men&rsquo;s hammer at the Olympic Games, let alone a medallist. The last winner from North America, meanwhile, was USA&rsquo;s Hal Connolly was back in 1956.
There are plenty of athletes trying to prevent Katzberg making history in Paris, though.
Defending Olympic champion <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/wojciech-nowicki-14941404" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wojciech Nowicki</a> is one of the most formidable competitors not just in the hammer but in the entire sport. The 35-year-old from Poland has featured on the podium at the past 11 major championships (Olympics, World Championships and European Championships).
In fact, the last time he finished lower than third in any competition was back in 2018 at the Continental Cup. He threw a season&rsquo;s best of 80.95m to win his third straight European title in June, and he won&rsquo;t want to surrender his Olympic title without a fight.
He&rsquo;ll be up against compatriot and long-time rival <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/pawel-fajdek-14329266" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pawel Fajdek</a>. The five-time world champion is one of the most decorated hammer throwers in history, though he hasn&rsquo;t always had the best of times at the Olympics. He failed to register a valid throw in qualifying in 2012, then finished a distant 17th in qualifying in 2016. He finally broke his Olympic jinx in 2021, though, and claimed the bronze medal.
The 35-year-old had a low-key start to the 2024 season and finished sixth at the European Championships, but since then he has found his groove and he won the Polish title with 80.02m, beating Nowicki. He followed that with victory at the Diamond League meeting in Paris.
Since the 2016 Olympics &ndash; the first time Nowicki finished ahead of Fajdek at a major event &ndash; the Polish duo are tied at 40-40 in their head-to-head record.
Hungary&rsquo;s <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/hungary/bence-halasz-14424480" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bence Halasz</a> missed out on making the Olympic final in Tokyo, but since then he has proven himself in the championship arena, taking world bronze last year and European silver in Rome in June, throwing a season&rsquo;s best of 80.49m.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/ukraine/mykhaylo-kokhan-14686964" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mykhaylo Kokhan</a> finished fourth at the Tokyo Olympics at the age of 20. The Ukrainian then placed fifth at last year&rsquo;s World Championships and he secured his first major senior medal in June this year when taking bronze at the European Championships. He&rsquo;s had four competitions beyond 80 metres this year, topped by a season&rsquo;s best of 80.76m, and has finished no lower than third in any of his outings.
US duo Daniel Haugh and Rudy Winkler have made the past three global championship finals. Both have achieved a sixth-place finish, Winkler at the 2022 World Championships and Haugh in Budapest last year, so they&rsquo;ll be looking to improve on that.
And keep an eye out for Olympic debutants Merlin Hummel of Germany and Yann Chaussinand of France, who finished fourth and fifth respectively at the European Championships.
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<h2>Women's hammer</h2>
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&bull; World champion Camryn Rogers has won all but one of her competitions this year &bull; 2019 world champion DeAnna Price is the leading US thrower heading to Paris &bull; Three-time Olympic champion and world record-holder Anita Wlodarczyk will be competing at her fifth Games 
Perhaps the biggest storyline in this discipline this year was Brooke Andersen&rsquo;s failure to make the US Olympic team.
The 2022 world champion threw a world-leading 79.92m earlier in the season, but recorded three fouls in the final of the US Olympic Trials and so missed out on being selected for the Games. Compatriot Janee Kassanavoid, a medallist at the past two World Championships, also failed to make the cut, placing sixth.
But despite their absence, there will still be a strong North American presence at the Games &ndash; quite the turnaround, given that no woman from USA or Canada has ever won an Olympic medal in the hammer.
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Camryn Rogers in the hammer at the Tokyo Olympics (&copy; Getty Images)
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The North American charge is led by world champion <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/canada/camryn-rogers-14607142" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Camryn Rogers</a>. The Canadian has won all but one of her competitions this year, topped by her 77.76m victory at the Wanda Diamond League meeting in Eugene &ndash; more than half a metre farther than her winning throw at the World Championships in Budapest last year.
The 25-year-old was fifth at the last Olympic Games in Tokyo, then went on to take Commonwealth gold and world silver in 2022.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/deanna-price-14491584" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DeAnna Price</a> has had a few rollercoaster years since winning the world title in 2019. She threw a North American record of 80.31m in 2021, but then finished eighth at the Olympics. Injury prevented her from being at her best in 2022, but she rebounded in 2023 and claimed world bronze in Budapest before winning the Pan-American title at the end of the year.
She finished second at the US Olympic Trials and heads to Paris with a season&rsquo;s best of 77.16m for what will be her third Olympics.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/annette-nneka-echikunwoke-14589891" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Annette Echikunwoke</a> was the surprise winner of the US Olympic Trials. The 28-year-old threw a season&rsquo;s best of 74.68m to claim victory and she&rsquo;ll be looking to improve on her 12th-place finish from the 2022 World Championships, her sole global appearance to date.
No talk of Olympic hammer throwing, however, would be complete without mentioning <a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/anita-wlodarczyk-14294652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anita Wlodarczyk</a> &ndash; the only woman in history to win three Olympic titles in a single athletics discipline.
The 38-year-old Pole still holds the world record at 82.98m. Although her season&rsquo;s best is some 10 metres shy of that mark, she is still competitive on the international stage, as shown by the silver medal she earned at the European Championships in Rome.
Wlodarczyk won gold in every world, Olympic and European final she contested between 2012 and 2021. For the first time in her long career, though, Wlodarczyk missed out on making a global final at the World Championships last year. She&rsquo;ll at least want to make amends for that in Paris in what will be her fifth Olympic appearance.
<a href="https://worldathletics.org/athletes/italy/sara-fantini-14593885" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sara Fantini</a> beat Wlodarczyk to the European title in Rome, throwing 74.18m. The Italian was 12th in the last Olympic final, so will be keen to improve on that in Paris.
Moldova&rsquo;s Zalina Marghieva and Finland&rsquo;s Krista Tervo have both set national records this year and are among the six best entrants on season&rsquo;s bests, so they&rsquo;ll be hopeful of at least reaching the final.
Chinese athletes have won medals in the women&rsquo;s hammer at the past four Olympics, and this year their best bet of a podium finish appears to rest with Zhao Jie. The 21-year-old won the Asian title last year, and improved her PB to 75.42m in her final competition before heading to Paris.
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics

Expected highlights in the hammer at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games 

Paris Olympics preview: hammer

When Krisztian Pars stepped up to take his final throw in the men&rsquo;s hammer at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, he was already assured of a place on the podium.
A fourth round effort of 79.97m had put the Hungarian in second place in the final, with only himself and the leader, the resurgent Koji Murofushi, left to throw.
Murofushi, the Olympic champion in Athens back in 2004, held pole position with 81.24m and the former Japanese golden boy looked to have regained his global Midas touch a month short of his 38th birthday.
&ldquo;Pars, the only one who can deny Murofushi,&rdquo; said Tim Hutchings in the Eurosport commentary box as the one-time teenage prodigy unwound in the circle &ndash; his left hand clutching the handle with the throwing glove he has kindly donated to the <a href="https://worldathletics.org/heritage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Museum of World Athletics</a>.
Pars punched his right first in the air after unleashing a mighty effort.&nbsp; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s very big,&rdquo; said Hutchings. &ldquo;I think he&rsquo;s done enough.&rdquo;
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The glove Krisztian Pars wore in Daegu (&copy; MOWA)
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In the front row of the stand, next to the perimeter fence, Pars&rsquo; coach, Zsolt Nemeth, started to raise his arms but then checked his instinctive act of celebration.
His caution was justified. In the final at the 1999 World Championships in Seville, Nemeth himself had uncorked a last round &ldquo;special&rdquo;, a throw of 79.05m that elevated him from sixth to the runner-up spot, 1.19m behind Germany&rsquo;s Karsten Kobs.
In Daegu 12 years later, Nemeth&rsquo;s charge also ended up with the silver medal.&nbsp;
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not quite enough,&rdquo; said Hutchings as Pars&rsquo; distance flashed up, 81.88m. &ldquo;I thought he&rsquo;d gone beyond the gold line. Murofushi is safe by 6cm.&rdquo;
<h2>The weight of history</h2>
It was different in the Olympic final in London a year later.
If the hand of Hungarian track and field history weighed heavily on Pars&rsquo; shoulder, it didn&rsquo;t show. The seasoned campaigner from the hammer stronghold of Szombathely in western Hungary played the coolest hand of all.&nbsp;
At the age of 30 &ndash; 13 years after winning the world U18 title &ndash; Pars upheld the magnificent Magyar tradition in the Olympic men&rsquo;s hammer competition, following in the gold medal winning footsteps of Imre Nemeth (1948), Jozsef Czermak (1952), Gyula Zsivotsky (1968) and Balazs Kiss (1996).
That made five different Olympic champions in the event, a figure that only the historical giants of the United States and the Soviet Union can equal.
US throwers have won seven golds in the men&rsquo;s hammer but three of those were claimed by one man, John Flanagan, the Irish-born New York policeman who took the first three titles, in 1900,1904 and 1908.&nbsp;
The Soviet Union won six, two of them courtesy of Yuriy Sedykh, and those break down into three by Russians, two by Belarusians and one by a Ukrainian.
Pars&rsquo; hopes of helping his country continue to punch well above their weight looked promising when he led the qualifiers, throwing 79.37m, and in the final he led from the opening round.
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Krisztian Pars competes at the London 2012 Olympic Games (&copy; Getty Images)
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His first throw came directly after defending champion Primoz Kozmus set out his stall with an opener of 78.97m.&nbsp;
In Beijing four years previously, the Slovenian had entered the history books as his country&rsquo;s first ever Olympic gold medallist.&nbsp;
He emerged from temporary retirement in 2010 intent on becoming the fourth man to retain an Olympic hammer title after Flanagan, Ireland&rsquo;s Pat O&rsquo;Callaghan, the champion in 1928 and 1932, and Sedykh, the Russian colossus of the event who struck gold in Montreal in 1976 and on home ground in Moscow in 1980, and whose world record mark of 88.74m has stood intact since 1986.
Pars relieved Kozmus of the lead at London 2012, opening with 79.14m, and surprised himself in holding on to it with a third round effort of 80.59m.
After three no-throws, Kozmus rallied with an improvement to 79.36m in round five but when his final effort hit the London turf at 78.59m, Pars finally had a senior global gold in his possession.
&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think that only 80.59m would win,&rdquo; he confessed. &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t believe no one else could throw over 80m.&nbsp;
&ldquo;I wanted to get well over 80m myself. The plan was to get 81m to 82m with the first throw and to see what everyone else could do after that.
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it was down to nerves, but no-one could strike a big blow against me. It was a big surprise, I have to admit.
&ldquo;But it&rsquo;s a wonderful feeling to be Olympic champion. It&rsquo;s what I dreamed about when I started as a boy. Everywhere I looked in the crowd, I could see Hungarians celebrating.&rdquo;
<h2>&ldquo;This is for Uncle Pali&rdquo;</h2>
One Hungarian had more reason than most to celebrate.
Until three years previously, Pars had been coached by Pal Nemeth, the hammer guru whose throwing school in Szombathely developed into a prestigious Accredited Training Centre recognised by the world governing body.
Nemeth guided local boy Tibor Gecsek to European gold at the Nep Stadion in Budapest in 1998, and to World Championships bronzes in 1993 and 1995. He also steered his own son, Zsolt, to that world silver in Seville in 1999, the same year he coached Pars to world U18 gold in Bydgoszcz.
When Pal died of a heart attack in 2009, Zsolt Nemeth took over as Pars&rsquo; guiding light.
In the immediate aftermath of his Olympic victory, Pars ran to embrace Zsolt, carrying a framed photograph of Pal.
&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sorry that Uncle Pali, couldn&rsquo;t be here to see this,&rdquo; he told the Hungarian press. &ldquo;This is for him.&rdquo;
Under Nemeth senior, Pars was a world U20 record-breaker, throwing 81.35m with a 6kg implement in 2001, as well as a world U18 champion.&nbsp;
At senior level, his progress on the global stage was steady: sixth, fifth and fourth respectively at the World Championships of 2005, 2007 and 2009; fourth in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic finals.
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Krisztian Pars in action in Athens (&copy; Getty Images)
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At London 2012, however, Pars could party like it was 1999.&nbsp;
He wasn&rsquo;t the only winner from the World U18 Championships of 13 years previously to claim gold in the English capital, though Michael Frater did have help from Usain Bolt and the rest of his Jamaican teammates in the final of the 4x100m.
At continental level, Pars won European titles in Helsinki in 2012 and in Zurich in 2014. In the final in the Letzigrund he landed his lifetime best throw, 82.69m.
In between those successes, he also earned a second world silver, in Moscow in 2012 &ndash; although that came as much as a disappointment as the consolation prize in Daegu.
Unbeaten in 23 competitions since June 2012, Pars started the final as clear favourite. His best of 80.30m was trumped by Pole Pawel Fajdek&rsquo;s 81.79m.
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics Heritage

When Krisztian Pars stepped up to take his final throw in the men’s hammer at the 2011 World Athletics Championships in Daegu, he was already assured of a place on the podium

Denied by 6cm, Pars donates Daegu 2011 throwing glove to the MOWA

A look back at the key moments of 2023 in the throwing events

2023 review: throws

Canadian sprinters and combined eventers have distinguished themselves at the highest level in recent years, but it was a pair of hammer throwers who took centre stage at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest.
Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg both captured world hammer titles in the Hungarian capital, providing half of Canada&rsquo;s gold medal haul.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s pretty incredible,&rdquo; says 24-year-old Rogers, who improved upon the silver medal she won in Oregon in 2022. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s something that has never been done before, and to be able to share this moment with Ethan is really cool; we get to show we are a throwing country and we have a lot of force and power on the world stage.
&ldquo;He is such an awesome person, and he and his coach Dylan (Armstrong) work so hard,&rdquo; Rogers added of Katzberg. &ldquo;He is so deserving of being the world champion.&rdquo;
Incredibly, Katzberg is even younger than Rogers, having turned 21 in April of this year. Although he earned silver at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, it was inconceivable that he would improve to the point he might contend for a place on the Budapest podium. But as he did in Birmingham a year ago, the 1.98m tall former basketball player peaked precisely at the right time, throwing a Canadian record of 81.18m in the qualifying round.
&ldquo;In the qualifying, (Wojciech) Nowicki asked me how far I threw and I said 81.18m,&rdquo; he recalls with a laugh. &ldquo;I think he might have even chuckled as if he didn&rsquo;t believe me. It came as a shock to everyone. With the qualifying, going to the final I knew I was capable (of winning).&rdquo;
He threw even farther in the final, reaching 81.25m to earn the title. He credits Armstrong &ndash; the 2008 Olympic shot put bronze medallist &ndash; and the legendary Anotoliy Bondarchuk, former world record-holder and 1972 Olympic hammer champion, for their meticulous guidance.
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&ldquo;That is Dylan&rsquo;s job. He masterminds the whole season,&rdquo; Katzberg declares with a smile. &ldquo;A personal best at major championships is what he wants. Being able to do that twice now shows what we are doing is working and that full commitment was the reason for the huge growth this year.&rdquo;
The celebratory dinner that night included his parents and sister Jessica, whom he followed into the hammer event when they were both teens, along with Armstrong and his family. And when Rogers finally met up with him that night, he was the recipient of a bear hug from his teammate.
Although Rogers and Katzberg are both from British Columbia, they only see each other at major championships. Still, she drew inspiration from his performance.
&ldquo;Ethan basically had the competition that so many people can only dream of &ndash; setting a personal best in the qualifying and then again in the final to win &ndash; it&rsquo;s unheard of,&rdquo; Rogers said.
"Oh my gosh, we were all so excited for him, so I was hoping to carry that momentum through with the women's hammer. That&rsquo;s the kind of energy you want to have before a competition.&rdquo;
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Ethan Katzberg in the hammer at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 (&copy; AFP / Getty Images)
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The women&rsquo;s hammer final was three days later and Rogers, with the help of her coach Mo Saatara, was able to contain her emotions in the interim. The draw for the final put her 12th and last in the order, meaning she would be forced to watch a sublime cast of throwers ahead of her.
&ldquo;Sometimes part of the fun can be being last in the order because it gives you a chance to respond,&rdquo; Rogers says, laughing again. &ldquo;In that situation it was really cool to be 12th and last in the order for that reason specifically. When you have such incredible women throwing in a competition together, I think it&rsquo;s a very motivating factor.&rdquo;
The anticipation of getting into the circle to start the competition built to a crescendo, and on Rogers&rsquo; very first throw she reached 77.22m. That would be enough for the gold medal.
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Camryn Rogers in the hammer at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 (&copy; Getty Images)
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Leading up to the championships, both Canadians had their share of distractions.
A native of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Katzberg has lived and trained in Kamloops since Armstrong recruited him after high school. It's in an area known as the Thompson Okanagan and was surrounded for months by out-of-control wildfires.
&ldquo;There were days when, if the wind was blowing the right way, Kamloops would be covered in smoke,&rdquo; Katzberg remembers.
His thoughts were with his grandparents who live 170km away in West Kelowna. Unbeknown to Katzberg, two days before his gold medal victory, the BC government ordered residents to evacuate as roughly 200 homes were razed. Katzberg&rsquo;s grandparents were among the evacuees but were eventually able to return to their home.
Rogers, who is from Richmond, British Columbia, just outside Vancouver, has been studying at the University of California, Berkeley the past five years and recently finished up her masters&rsquo; degree in cultural studies of sport and education. Her collegiate career included three NCAA hammer titles (2019, 2021 and 2022).
Academia was on her mind even as she was in her final preparation for the World Championships.
&ldquo;I actually submitted my masters&rsquo; thesis two weeks before I competed in the final of the World Championships,&rdquo; she says, laughing aloud. &ldquo;I wrote a policy recommendation that would help allow international student-athletes competing in the NCAA to benefit and partake in image-and-likeness contracts, and to be able to receive compensation while they are in the US. It&rsquo;s a very personal experience on that one.&rdquo;
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Now that she is finished with school, she has signed a Nike contract which she says will ease financial stress going forward. She also starts a job in a couple of weeks; she will be an advocate for special education in an attorney&rsquo;s office. Her hours will be flexible and she will work remotely from her home in Oakland.
Having enjoyed some time off, she is back in the gym lifting weights and preparing for 2024.
&ldquo;Coach Mo was telling me the other day &lsquo;every year you start back at square one&rsquo;,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;And so we have to do everything we did last year all over again and look at all the things we did right and how we get better.&rdquo;
Already the Paris Olympics are in focus. Looking back on her Tokyo Olympic experience &ndash; she was a credible fifth &ndash; she remembers feeling &ldquo;young and inexperienced like a deer in the headlights&rdquo;. This time she will compete as the world champion and with all of the expectations and pressures Canadians will likely place on her.
&ldquo;I am someone who has always liked pressure,&rdquo; she responds. &ldquo;Going into Paris, I think I will feel some of that anxiety a little bit. But it&rsquo;s more because I understand the level of competition coming to Paris. I want to be up there with them and aiming to get on the podium like everyone else; aiming for the gold. It&rsquo;s definitely going to be an insane competition, I can tell you that.&rdquo;
Katzberg, who enjoys fly fishing for rainbow trout in the lakes near Kamloops, was given one day off following his Budapest victory before he, Armstrong and Bondarchuk embarked on a programme aiming at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Although he was still coming to terms with his World Championships gold a month afterwards, Katzberg believes he can shelve the excitement of being world champion and return to the podium.
&ldquo;I am extremely motivated; I just want to stick to the programme, keep doing what I am doing, keep enjoying it and make a big push for the Olympics,&rdquo; he says. &rdquo;Hopefully the season goes well leading up to that. I am not looking at anything number-wise. I will keep my head down and train hard.&rdquo;
An unprecedented double victory behind them, this pair of Canadians will be a force come the Paris Olympics and, given their young age, for years to come.
Paul Gains for World Athletics

A pair of hammer throwers took centre stage for Canada at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest

World hammer champions Rogers and Katzberg preparing to lead Canada to gold in Paris and beyond

In Oregon last year, Camryn Rogers took a giant step for Canadian hammer throwing, claiming her country&rsquo;s first ever medal in the event at the World Athletics Championships.
Thirteen months on, Canada finds herself at the top of the global order with not one, but now two world champions.&nbsp;
Four days after Ethan Katzberg upset the odds with his stunning breakthrough victory in the men&rsquo;s final, Rogers made it a double golden celebration for the North American nation with a momentous victory of her own in the women&rsquo;s final.
More than three metres shy of the top step on the podium with her silver medal effort in Oregon, the 24-year-old from Richmond, British Columbia, had the gold in her grasp with one fell swoop this time.
The Commonwealth Games champion took the lead with her opening effort, 77.22m, and was unable to better it &ndash; following up with 77.07m, 76.75m, 75.68m, 76.22m and 74.92m.
Her big rivals from across the border in the USA were not able to surpass it, either.
In Oregon Janee' Kassanavoid made history as the first Native American to gain a World Championships medal in any event, securing the bronze behind Brooke Andersen and Rogers.
The proud Comanche fouled her opening effort in Budapest but moved into second with 76.00m in round two. She improved to 76.36m with her next effort but could make no further inroads.
DeAnna Price, the world champion in Doha in 2019 and second on the world all-time list with 80.31m, opened with two fouls and could only muster a best of 75.41m in round five. Hence the gold went to Rogers, silver to Kassanavoid, and bronze to Price.
It might have been different had Hanna Skydan been able to replicate the 77.10m national record she threw in qualifying but the Azerbaijani finished fourth with a best on the night of 74.18m. Finland&rsquo;s world U20 champion Silja Kosonen was fifth with 73.89m and Italy&rsquo;s Sara Fantini sixth with 73.85m.
&ldquo;Ethan really set the stage out there,&rdquo; said Rogers. &ldquo;I feel Canada is making its presence known all across the world. Being able to win this medal for Canada means the world to me. I am so proud to represent my country on the world's stage.&nbsp;
&ldquo;You never know what can happen on the day of the finals. Everything is possible and that is what makes championships so exciting. On the day you need to be ready to throw your best.&nbsp;
&ldquo;With all the training I have done, being able to come here, throw consistently and have one of the best series in my career to get a medal &ndash; it shows I am doing something right. I cannot be any happier.
&ldquo;Competing in the final with such amazing and talented throwers makes this piece of history even better. It enriches the experience knowing you are among amazing people who are all aiming for the same goal. It makes me so happy to share this moment with them. This medal is a good step in the right direction. I am excited about what next year will bring. Paris will be huge.&rdquo;
Kassanavoid described her silver as &ldquo;a huge win for me.&rdquo;&nbsp;
&ldquo;I could not have imagined a better meet than this,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;Last year I ended up with the bronze medal. I knew I could have done more and I wanted more. So I ended this with a better performance, more consistent and a better medal, second place. It was awesome for me and my coach, who worked so hard and battled a lot of adversity.&nbsp;
&ldquo;As an indigenous woman representing my nation and the people of the Comanche nation, this is how I carry myself, how I want to inspire and empower women in sport and the next generation.&nbsp;
&ldquo;This is a huge win for us. When I step in the ring, you see us &ndash; a beautiful, strong, resilient nation. To be indigenous, to be a Native American: that is something you cannot really beat.&rdquo;
As for Price, she reflected: &ldquo;It has been a long, long journey. I was at the top of my game before the Tokyo Olympic Games, but a week before the competition I snapped my ankle, tore my ligaments and had a fracture, so I went to the Games basically on one leg.
&ldquo;I got eighth place there, and when I got home I had a complete ankle reconstruction. Every moment I was fighting to be able to get back. I thought I was going to have to retire, but I'm here with a medal on my neck, and these flag colours on my shoulders.
&ldquo;This is unbelievable. This bronze feels like gold today. After the first two attempts, I was relaxing myself, because it was really nerve-wracking.&nbsp;
&ldquo;But I managed to fight back with that 75.41m throw. I didn't know whether it would be enough, but I was hoping it would.&rdquo;
Simon Turnbull for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Camryn Rogers 🇨🇦 CAN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">77.22m</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Janee' Kassanavoid 🇺🇸 USA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">76.36m</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #bd895e; text-align: center;">🥉</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">DeAnna Price 🇺🇸 USA</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">75.41m</td>
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World Athletics Championships, Budapest 2023

Canada finds herself at the top of the global order with not one, but now two world champions

Rogers completes Canadian hammer double in Budapest

Ethan Katzberg may be a relatively new name in the hammer throwing world, but, looking back, all the signs were there that the Canadian would be a medal contender at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23.
The 21-year-old had finished in the top three in all of his competitions this year and had improved his personal best three times, most recently in his final competition before heading to Budapest, throwing 78.73m to win the Canadian title.
He smashed that PB with his first and only throw in the qualifying round, sending his hammer out to a national record of 81.18m.
But the slate was wiped clean for the final, and he was up against some of the giants of the event, including five-time world champion Pawel Fajdek, Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki and home favourite Bence Halasz.
Fajdek opened with a solid 80.00, but was soon overtaken by Halasz, who threw 80.82m &ndash; much to the delight of the home crowd.
Katzberg also joined them beyond the 80-metre line in round one, opening with 80.18m to move into second place.
Nowicki was next to breach that barrier, throwing 80.70m in round two to move into second place.
Fajdek and Halasz didn&rsquo;t improve upon their opening throws for the duration of the competition. Halasz&rsquo;s third-round effort was initially measured at 81.02m, but a video replay showed that his toe had dipped outside of the sector.
Nowicki briefly took the lead with an 81.02m effort in round five, but just moments later it was bettered by Katzberg, who set a Canadian record of 81.25m.
No one improved in the final round, but Katzberg consolidated his lead with 81.11m and Nowicki ended with 80.36m.
&ldquo;To throw a PB and become a world champion, that is absolutely a great feeling,&rdquo; said Katzberg after becoming not only the youngest ever men&rsquo;s hammer champion at the World Championships, but the youngest ever medallist in the event. &ldquo;It hasn&rsquo;t hit me yet.&rdquo;
Jon Mulkeen for World Athletics
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #e9c968; text-align: center;">🥇</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #e9c968;">Ethan Katzberg 🇨🇦 CAN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #e9c968;">81.25m NR</td>
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<td style="width: 10%; background-color: #ced4d9; text-align: center;">🥈</td>
<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #ced4d9;">Wojciech Nowicki 🇵🇱 POL</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #ced4d9;">81.02m</td>
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<td style="width: 60%; background-color: #bd895e;">Bence Halasz 🇭🇺 HUN</td>
<td style="width: 30%; background-color: #bd895e;">80.82m SB</td>
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Ethan Katzberg may be a relatively new name in the hammer throwing world, but, looking back, all the signs were there that the Canadian would be a medal contender at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23.

Katzberg ends Fajdek’s reign as world hammer champion in Budapest

<h2>Men's hammer</h2>
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The last time that Pawel Fajdek did not finish on top of the men's hammer podium at the World Championships was 2011, when Japan&rsquo;s Koji Murofushi took the title. Now, at the World Athletics Championships Budapest 23, the Polish great goes for a sixth successive victory, one that would match the record number of world titles won in a single event achieved by Sergey Bubka in the pole vault between 1983 and 1997.
But it is another Polish global gold medallist &ndash; Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki&nbsp;&ndash; who is the clear world No.1 in the event right now. Fajdek and Nowicki have clashed a total of 123 times in their career so far, with Fajdek leading that head-to-head record, 90-33. But Nowicki has finished ahead of Fajdek in their last eight competitions and he also got the upper hand at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, when he threw a PB of 82.52m to win his first global gold. That came after he gained bronze in Rio, and medals of the same colour at the World Championships in Doha in 2019, London in 2017 and Beijing in 2015.
While Nowicki leads this season&rsquo;s top list with his 81.92m throw from the Oslo Diamond League, and goes into the competition in Budapest as the favourite, the 34-year-old is not unbeaten this year and there are some strong contenders if he is not in top form come 20 August.
Nowicki has eight wins to his name so far in 2023, but he has finished second on two occasions &ndash; first to Rudy Winkler at the Irena Szewinska Memorial in Bydgoszcz on 6 June and then to Mykhaylo Kokhan at the Gyulai Istvan Memorial in Szekesfehervar on 18 July.
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Mykhaylo Kokhan in Oregon (&copy; Getty Images)
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USA&rsquo;s Winkler finished seventh at the Tokyo Olympics and sixth at last year&rsquo;s World Championships on home soil in Oregon, but this season he sits second on the world top list behind Nowicki with his 80.88m throw at the USATF Throws Festival&nbsp;in Arizona in May.
Ukraine&rsquo;s 22-year-old Kokhan set his PB of 80.78m in Szekesfehervar in 2021 and he recorded 79.37m &ndash; his farthest throw in two years &ndash; to win again in the Hungarian city last month. That performance came three days after Kokhan&rsquo;s European U23 title win in Espoo and he will be hoping for more success on his return to Hungary as he targets a first senior world medal after his world U18 gold in 2017 and world U20 silver in 2018.
Bence Halasz carries home hopes. The Hungarian 26-year-old, who claimed world bronze in Doha in 2019, finished fifth in Oregon last year and set his PB of 80.92m when finishing second to Nowicki at the European Championships last August. He has a best of 78.27m in 2023, achieved in his most recent competition &ndash; on home soil in Szombathely &ndash; on 30 July.
One place above him on the entry list is Ethan Katzberg, who threw a PB of 78.73m to win the Canadian title at the end of July. Along with Fajdek, who has a best of 78.10m in 2023, Mexico&rsquo;s Diego del Real and Denzel Comenentia of the Netherlands have also surpassed 78 metres so far this year, with respective marks of 78.05m and 78.01m.
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<h2>Women's hammer</h2>
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In May Brooke Andersen became the third athlete in history to surpass 80 metres in the women&rsquo;s hammer, throwing 80.17m in Tucson. Now the 27-year-old aims to become the third athlete in World Athletics Championships history to become a multiple gold medallist.
Andersen claimed her world crown with a 78.96m throw on home soil in Oregon, winning by more than three metres ahead of Camryn Rogers. But Rogers is also in PB form in 2023 and threw a Canadian record of 78.62m in Los Angeles in May.
Andersen has this season&rsquo;s top five winning performances to her name, backing up her 80.17m with marks of 79.80m, 78.79m, 78.69m and 78.65m, and she has won all bar one of her 10 competitions. Rogers has six of the top 12 this year and has also contested 10 competitions so far, winning eight of them. One of those wins was at the Los Angeles Grand Prix on 26 May, when she handed Andersen her single defeat.
Sitting ahead of Andersen on the world all-time list are world record-holder Anita Wlodarczyk, who threw 82.98m in 2016, and her US compatriot DeAnna Price, who recorded 80.31m in 2021.
Both Wlodarczyk and Price are also in action in Budapest. For Wlodarczyk, who has four world titles and three Olympic gold medals to her name, it is a return to the world stage after she missed last year&rsquo;s edition in Oregon due to injury sustained while apprehending a thief who had broken into her car.
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Anita Wlodarczyk in action in the hammer in London (&copy; Getty Images)
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Price sits third on this season&rsquo;s top list with the 78.18m throw that got her the runner-up spot behind Andersen at the US Championships and she also has the chance to become a multiple world gold medallist following her 2019 victory in Doha. In Doha she took the title ahead of Poland&rsquo;s Joanna Fiodorow, who is now coach to men&rsquo;s Olympic champion Wojciech Nowicki, and China&rsquo;s Wang Zheng.
That is one of three world medals claimed by Wang so far and the 35-year-old, who also claimed Olympic silver in Tokyo, will be looking to improve on her season&rsquo;s best of 74.12m to again put her in medal contention.
Wlodarczyk is one place ahead of Wang on the entry list, the Polish legend having thrown 74.81m in Banska Bystrica on 20 July.
USA&rsquo;s Janee' Kassanavoid claimed bronze in Oregon and will be aiming for the podium again. She goes into the competition at No.4 on this season&rsquo;s top list with a best of 76.60m from May.
Jillian Shippee is the fourth member of the US team in Budapest and she has thrown a 74.93m PB this year.
Finland&rsquo;s 20-year-old Silja Kosonen claimed the world U20 title in 2021 and she contests her second senior World Championships after finishing seventh on her debut in Oregon last year.
Jess Whittington for World Athletics

Expected highlights in the men's and women's hammer