Canada looking to cement its status as a throwing powerhouse at Paris Olympics

Canada has never won an Olympic gold medal in a throwing event, but that could soon change.

The reigning female and male hammer throw world champions, Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg, will be wearing the maple leaf in Paris.

"I think they're going to be fierce competitors and from all early season results, they're going to be vying for the medals and hopefully focusing exclusively on gold with both of them being current world champions," said former Olympic decathlete and CBC Sports analyst Michael Smith.

"That sets the tone for the rest of the field to feed off of them. So I am super excited to watch."

It's been more than 100 years since Canada won an Olympic medal in hammer throw, when Duncan Gillis won a silver medal in 1912.

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Not to be forgotten is Sarah Mitton, who enters her second Olympics as a medal contender in shot put.

"It's really exciting to be on a team that's about to win a lot of medals because the momentum that you feel as the team starts to pick a few up, it elevates the entire team," Mitton, who's ranked second in the world, told The Canadian Press earlier this year.

Here's a look at the three athletes putting Canada on the map as a throwing country.

Richmond, B.C.'s Rogers was the youngest competitor at the Olympics in Tokyo, where she finished in fifth place.

She won silver at the world championship in Oregon in 2022. That made her the first Canadian woman to win a world championship medal in a field event.

Then, Rogers bested that result a year later in Hungary, throwing 77.22 metres to win gold. The 25-year-old is now ranked number one in the world.

The qualification rounds in women's hammer throw begin on Sunday at 4:20 a.m. ET. The