Camryn Rogers wins women's hammer throw for 2nd Kuortane Games title in 3 years

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Camryn Rogers continued her unbeaten week and winning play connected Saturday. The Richmond, B.C., hammer thrower captured the women's lawsuit successful Finland, defeating her friends and Finnish teammates Krista Tervo and Silja Kosonen astatine the 86th Kuortane Games.

Canadian hammer propulsion prima has won 4 of her 5 competitions this season

Doug Harrison · CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 22, 2025 11:54 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Canadian hammer propulsion jock Camryn Rogers competes during the women’s last astatine the Paris Olympics connected August 6, 2024 successful Saint-Denis, France.

Camryn Rogers continued her unbeaten week and winning play connected Saturday.

The Canadian hammer thrower captured the women's lawsuit successful Finland, defeating her friends and Finnish teammates Krista Tervo and Silja Kosonen astatine the 86th Kuortane Games.

Rogers, the reigning satellite and Olympic champion, threw 76.45 metres astatine Kuortane Central Sports Field to borderline Tervo (76.98) for her 4th triumph successful 5 competitions this outdoor season. Kosonen was 3rd (72.90).

Rogers fell 12 centimetres shy of matching her stadium grounds acceptable 2 years agone successful a triumph implicit Kosonen astatine the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze way and tract meet.

The 26-year-old Rogers fouled connected her archetypal of six attempts Sunday but rebounded with her champion propulsion connected her adjacent try. She besides didn't grounds a region connected her 5th attempt.

On Tuesday, the Richmond, B.C., jock prevailed contempt 3 fouls with a 74.59m apical propulsion astatine the 68th Paavo Nurmi Games successful Turku, astir 315 kilometres southbound of Kuortane, wherever she bushed Kosonen (second) and Tervo (ninth).

Rogers volition instrumentality to Canada to hole for the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League lawsuit connected July 5 successful Eugene, Ore.

She has a champion propulsion of 78.14 this play and 78.62 idiosyncratic best.

Rogers won an Olympic golden medal past Aug. 6 successful Paris aft securing her archetypal satellite title rubric successful 2023 aft metallic the erstwhile year.

WATCH | Rogers takes women's hammer propulsion astatine 68th Paavo Nurmi Games:

B.C.'s Camryn Rogers places 1st successful women's hammer propulsion contention successful Turku

The Richmond, B.C. autochthonal scored 75.59-metres connected her 5th propulsion to clinch the women's hammer propulsion contention astatine the World Athletics Continental Tour conscionable successful Turku, Finland.

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Doug Harrison has covered the nonrecreational and amateur country arsenic a elder writer for CBC Sports since 2003. Previously, the Burlington, Ont., autochthonal covered the NHL and different leagues for Faceoff.com. Follow the award-winning writer @harrisoncbc

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