Aliaksei Vasilevich Katkavets ( be, Аляксей Васільевіч Каткавец; born 7 June 1998) is a Belarusian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete competing in the

javelin throw The javelin throw is a track and field event where the javelin, a spear about in length, is thrown. The javelin thrower gains momentum by running within a predetermined area. Javelin throwing is an event of both the men's decathlon and the ...

. He competed in the men's javelin throw event at the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2019, he competed in the men's javelin throw at the

2019 World Athletics Championships The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships () was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), since renamed World Athletics. It was held betw ...

in Doha, Qatar. He did not qualify to compete in the final. In 2019, he won the bronze medal in the men's javelin throw at the

2019 European Athletics U23 Championships The 2019 European Athletics U23 Championships were the 12th edition of the biennial athletics competition between European athletes under the age of twenty-three. It was held in Gävle, Sweden from 11 to 14 July. Medal summary Men Track * Medal ...

held in Gävle, Sweden.

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* Living people 1998 births Place of birth missing (living people) Belarusian male javelin throwers World Athletics Championships athletes for Belarus Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Belarus Olympic male javelin throwers {{Belarus-athletics-bio-stub