When Ethan Katzberg won the world championship title in the hammer throw last month, he surprised a lot of people. But for his coach Dylan Armstrong, it was what they had been training four years for. On this week's podcast Armstrong breaks down how they used those years to develop Katzberg from a multi-sport high school athlete into the youngest world champion in the event's history.

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More notes:

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• You can follow Dylan's Kamloops throws group on Instagram at @KamloopsThrows.
• We also put up some recent analysis of the first half and second half of the throwing events at this year's world championships.
• Our archive has a comprehensive introduction to Bondarchuk's training methods: we have a simple introduction, as well video lesson detailing his approach, as well as a sample training program. We also interviewed him in 2015.
• Former world record holder Jüri Tamm also shed some insights on talent, development, and Soviet training in two multi-part interviews that we did with him over the years. You can read the first interview and second interview.
• Some of our coverage of the recent World Championships include a debrief on Episode 307 with René Sack, analysis of the first half and second half of the throwing events, regional/national trends, and our preview to kick things off on Episode 305 with Don Babbitt.