When this year's World Athletics Championships gets underway, a record number of Canadians will be looking to repeat as champions.

But those four athletes – hammer throwers Camryn Rogers and Ethan Katzberg, decathlete Pierce LePage, and 800-metre runner Marco Arop – aren't the only ones expected to challenge for gold in Tokyo.

Canada is sending a total of 59 athletes (30 men and 29 women), its largest-ever contingent to compete at the world championships, and Athletics Canada head coach Glenroy Gilbert believes the team's strength lies in its depth.

"I think we've got a really balanced group of athletes. We've got throws, we've got jumps, multi events, we've got the sprint side, we've got walks," Gilbert said from the Canadian team's training camp in Gifu, Japan. "When you look across a

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