Canada will send four defending champions to the world athletics championships for the first time in the competition's history.

Hammer throwers Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, 800-metre runner Marco Arop and decathlete Pierce LePage are part of the 59-athlete Canadian team named by Athletics Canada on Thursday for next month's championships in Tokyo.

Katzberg, from Nanaimo, B.C., and Rogers, from Richmond, B.C., are also the reigning Olympic champions in their events.

Edmonton's Arop won silver in the 800 at the 2024 Paris Games, while LePage, from Whitby, Ont., was unable to compete in Paris due to a herniated disc.

Canada's squad also includes the Olympic-champion 4x100 sprint relay team of Andre De Grasse on Markham, Ont., Toronto's Aaron Brown, Toronto's Brendon Rodney and Jerome

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