He won silver at the Commonwealth Games last year in Birmingham, England.
Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, a bit of an unknown curiosity when he won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games last summer in Birmingham, England, proved he is the real deal by winning the 2023 world championship in the hammer throw Sunday in Budapest, Hungary.
“I’m quite young for the sport but I’m feeling good. It feels amazing. With it being my first world championships, I didn’t know exactly what to expect, but I came in with a good mentality,” said Katzberg, in his post-competition media scrum.“It was an amazing competition with amazing athletes. They are veterans of the sport and know what they are doing. To compete with them at the highest level is an amazing thing,” said the John Barsby Secondary graduate.
“I knew it was going to be good. I didn’t know it was going to be 81.25. Obviously, I’m very excited that it was. It felt good leaving my hands,” said Katzberg, a product of the Nanaimo Track and Field Club. It was the first time Katzberg, who began in the sport because his older sister threw hammer at John Barsby, had thrown over 80 metres.
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