Hungarian hammer pitcher, Bence Halász, gave a better personal brand and found a record against a local crowd to beat Ethan Katzberg, the current Canadian Olympic champion, in a hot and wet at night in Budapest.
Halász, who was Katzberg’s second at the summer games last August, surpassed his opponent in the third attempt at the Hungarian Athletics Grand Prize and never looked back, ending with a better launch of 83.18 meters.
Its previous PB of 81.94 was established on August 2 in the Hungarian championship in Budapest.
Halász He was also the bronze medalist when Katzberg captured the world title in 2023.
The latter was looking for a repetition of the victory last year when he launched 81.87 and had the early advantage on Tuesday by throwing 80.31 in his first attempt and 81.01 in his third of six attempts in Budapest, where the temperature reached 31 C.
The Nanaimo, BC, the best of 81.88 Native arrived two releases later and placed it in second place. He was the farthest in five events since his season 82.73 best to win at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi, Kenya.
Katzberg, the best male hammer pitcher classified by the world, won his first five competitions this season, but the American Rudy Winkler broke the streak on July 5 at the Classic League of the Diamond League of Prefontaine Classic diamonds in Eugene, Oregon, where the Canadian was the second.
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The current Ohano Katzberg Olympic champion of Nanaimo, BC won a silver medal in the male hammers competition, in the Continental Tour Athletics World Cup is located in Budapest.
Mykhalo Kokhan of Ukraine, the Olympic bronze medalist in Paris, was third on Tuesday with a launch of 80.84 at the golden meeting of the Athletics World Athletics Tour also known as the Istvan Gyulai memorial.
Ten days ago, Katzberg was victorious by Jeremiah Nubbe in the Canadian championship in Ottawa.
Katzberg established the Canadian record of 84.38 on April 20, 2024 and the National Championship record of 82.60 on June 26, 2024.
In the Paris Olympic Games, he became the first Canadian Olympic hammer launch champion and won the country’s first medal at the event since 1912.
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At 22, he was the golden medalist of the youngest summer games. Its winning launch of 84.12 was 26 centimeters below the national brand and the area (North and Central America and Caribbean) of 84.38.
A year earlier, Katzberg was the first Canadian to win a world title in Hammer Throw, a few days before the victory of his teammate Camryn Rogers in the women’s event in Budapest.
2nd Canadian obstacle title in 3 years
Tuesday was supposed to be a set for the Canadian obstacle Savannah Sutherland before its scheduled debut in the Diamond League on Friday in Silesia, Poland, but did not take the line for the 400 -meter female event.
The 22 -year -old from Borden, Sask., He came from her second victory for the national title in three years.
Sutherland, who attends the University of Michigan, directed a Canadian record of 52.46 seconds to victory in the Outdoor Athletics Championship of the NCAA on June 14. It is not only a meeting record, but a record of the NCAA and Big Ten and the faster time ever registered in the event.
On July 13, he ran 50.62 in the 400 flat race in Edmonton to automatically qualify for the World Athletics Championship from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo. Sutherland announced that he signed a professional contract with Adidas two days before.
Almost at the same time, Sutherland was appointed one of the three female finalists for the Bowerman, granted annually to the most prominent athletes of the United University athletics.
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Marie-Josee Talou-Smith is victorious in the 100 female meters in a time of 10.97 at the World Continental Tour World Cup in Budapest, Hungary.
Current in the litera of the battle for the world of athletics
Meanwhile, Kate Current of Cobourg, Ontario, is fighting for one of the three points qualified in the Canadian team for worlds in the 1,500 female. He collected crucial classification points on Tuesday by executing a 4: 02.79 bp to place 13 of 15 finalists.
Fifty -six athletes for the 1,500 female in the World Championship will be selected. Gabriela Debues-Stafford is the Canadian lonely woman to run the automatic input standard. She ranks 32, followed by Simone Plourde (34) and Lucia Stafford (36), while Current is firmly in the mixture after Tuesday’s performance. The qualification window closes on August 24.
Athletics Canada can select a maximum of three gender athletes in each event.
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Kishane Thompson established the rhythm with a winning time of 9.95 in the 100 male meters in the Athletics Continental Tour in Budapest, Hungary.
Flanagan will debut in the marathon
Also on Tuesday, it was announced that Ben Flanagan, from Kitchener, Ontario, will debut in the Marathon on October 19 at the Toronto Waterfront event with exhausted tickets.
He also considered debuting in New York, Chicago or in the International Marathon in California, but wanted to aim at a national title.
“Super enthusiastic about Toronto races. [My decision] Mainly it had to do with races at home. AND [Toronto] Aligned well with my personal goals for the marathon debut, “Flanagan told CBC Sports.
Flanagan has not run since he placed seventh place in the half marathon of New York City on March 16. His daughter Nora was born shortly after, and then Flanagan had hoped to enter an extended marathon training block.
The 30 -year -old could not defend his ottawa 10K title in May due to a hip/quad outbreak that was later diagnosed as a partially torn labrum in his left hip joint.
Flanagan is back running near its full volume of training, but will not compete in Falmouth Road’s career in Massachusetts, near his home in Cape Cod.
He won the 11.3 km male elite race in his debut in 2022 and was seventh last year.
“Unfortunately, I am not competitively, and the main priority is to be ready for Toronto,” he said. “I’m aiming about 120 km this week and building from there.”
Julien Alfred A Miss Diamond League Sprints
The 100 -meter -meter Olympic champion Julien Alfred will lose three meetings of the Diamond League in August due to an injury, the event organizers said on Tuesday.
The 24 -year -old from Santa Lucia will not compete on Friday in Silesia, Poland, Lausana, Switzerland (August 20) and Brussels (August 22). It was scheduled to run the 100 in Silesia and 200 in Lausana.
Alfred has registered 10.75 seconds in the 100 this season and occupies second place in the world. The last time he competed in the London Diamond League, where he won the 200 in the best 21.71 personal seconds.
Alfred has won four races of his five appearances in the Diamond League in 2025 and secured the qualification for the 100 meters in the final in Zurich, which extends from August 27 to 28.
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