Camryn Rogers continued her unbeaten week and winning season on Saturday.
The Canadian hammer thrower captured the women’s event in Finland, defeating her friends and Finnish teammates Krista Tervo and Silja Kosonen at the 86th Kuortane Games.
Rogers, the reigning world and Olympic champion, threw 76.45 metres at Kuortane Central Sports Field to edge Tervo (76.98) for her fourth victory in five competitions this outdoor season. Kosonen was third (72.90).
Rogers fell 12 centimetres shy of matching her stadium record set two years ago in a victory over Kosonen at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze track and field meet.
The 26-year-old Rogers fouled on her first of six attempts Sunday but rebounded with her best throw on her next try. She also didn’t record a distance on her fifth attempt.
On Tuesday, the Richmond, B.C., athlete prevailed despite three fouls with a 74.59m top throw at the 68th Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku, about 315 kilometres south of Kuortane, where she beat Kosonen (second) and Tervo (ninth).
Rogers will return to Canada to prepare for the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League event on July 5 in Eugene, Ore.
She has a best throw of 78.14 this season and 78.62 personal best.
Rogers won an Olympic gold medal last Aug. 6 in Paris after securing her first world championship title in 2023 after silver the previous year.
WATCH | Rogers takes women’s hammer throw at 68th Paavo Nurmi Games:
B.C.’s Camryn Rogers places 1st in women’s hammer throw competition in Turku
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