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Camryn Rogers earned gold for Canada with a winning first throw during Saturday’s final round of the women’s hammer throw event at the IAAF Under-20 World Championships in Tampere, Finland.
Photo by Don Fennell
Rogers wins world championship
Camryn Rogers put the hammer down Saturday at
the IAAF Under-20 World Championships in Tampere, Finland.
The 19-year-old from Richmond stepped into
the winner’s circle immediately, throwing a final-round best 64.90 metres with
her opening throw to earn gold in the women’s hammer throw. The mark is just
shy of her personal best throw of 65.61 metres set April 27 at theUniversity of California at Berkeley.
Rogers also needed only one attempt in the July
12 qualifying round to advance to Saturday’s championship round. Her first
and only attempt resulted in a toss of 62.99 metres.
Having just completed her first year of an
athletic scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley, the longtime
member of the Richmond Kajaks Track and Field Club is one of Canada’s emerging
track and field elite.
Rogers reached the top of the podium at last year’s Under-20 Pan-American Track and Field Championships in Trujillo, Peru with a meet-best mark of 63.42 metres.
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