Fifty-nine track and field athletes, the most Canada has sent to a World Athletics Championships, will try to top the six medals the 2023 team earned in Budapest, Hungary.

Competition runs through Sunday in Tokyo. Watch all the action on CBCSports.ca and CBC Gem, and click here for the full broadcast details .

Canada has sent four defending champions for the first time in world championship history: Hammer throwers Ethan Katzberg and Camryn Rogers, 800-metre runner Marco Arop and decathlete Pierce LePage. Rogers successfuly defended her title on Monday.

Athletics Canada also named four athletes in an individual event, also a first, in the men's 800.

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