Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., turned a family title in monitor and subject in 2024, bringing house Olympic gold for Canada within the males’s hammer throw on the Paris Video games. The Olympic gold capped off a dominant season for Katzberg, who received 11 of his 12 hammer throw competitions. Now, he’s one among 5 male nominees for the World Athletics Subject Athlete of the Yr award.
At simply 22, Katzberg has risen to the highest of the hammer throw world, holding the title of each world and Olympic champion (concurrently). In Might, he set a Canadian document with a throw of 84.38 metres on the Kip Keino Continental Tour in Nairobi, Kenya—the farthest throw by any competitor since 2008.
Katzberg is up towards some robust contenders. The opposite nominees embody Olympic shot put champion Ryan Crouser (USA), males’s Olympic triple leap champion Jordan Alejandro Díaz Fortún (Spain), world and Olympic lengthy leap champion Miltiadis Tentoglou (Greece), and pole vault champion and world document holder Mondo Duplantis (Sweden).
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You may assist Katzberg change into a finalist for the award by voting for the Subject Athlete of the Yr on World Athletics’ social media platforms. Voting will shut on Sunday, Oct. 20. The ultimate determination will likely be decided by three voting teams: the World Athletics Council’s vote, which counts for 50 per cent of the consequence, whereas the World Athletics Household’s votes and social media votes will every account for 25 per cent. Voting may be finished by ‘likes’ on Fb and Instagram posts, or retweets on X (previously Twitter).
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The nominees for the Monitor Athlete of the Yr awards will likely be introduced on Oct. 21, adopted by the non-stadia Athlete of the Yr nominees on Oct. 28.
