Canada has received its second medal on the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, and as soon as once more, it’s gold–and as soon as once more, it’s within the hammer throw occasion. Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., who received silver ultimately yr’s world championships in Eugene, Ore., has taken the gold, reaching 77.22 metres in her first throw on Thursday, hanging on for the win.
Earlier this week, Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., received gold within the males’s hammer throw, scoring a private finest and nationwide file of 81.25 metres.
Rogers’s throw was nearly a metre farther than silver medallist Janee’ Kassanavoid of the U.S. (76.36 metres). DeAnna Value of the U.S. took bronze, with 75.41 metres.
The victory was removed from assured for Rogers, whose season has not gone in addition to she might need hoped, although she was nonetheless a favorite to achieve the rostrum in Budapest; she produced higher outcomes than anybody else within the subject on 4 of her throws.
“Each single competitors is a chance to study and do higher,” says Rogers in a post-race interview. “With the ability to go into worlds final yr and win silver was extremely useful, and now to face right here with this gold– it means the world.”
Her silver medal ultimately yr’s world championships was the first-ever medal within the sport for Canada, and since final yr, Canadian hammer throwers have earned two world championship golds, in addition to a silver for Jillian Weir on the 2022 Commonwealth Video games in Birmingham.
Photograph: James Rhodes (@jrhodesathletics)
These are Canada’s first two medals of the video games, although there are a number of occasions nonetheless to come back by which Canada has potential medal contenders; these embrace the lads’s 200m last on Friday with Andre De Grasse, the lads’s 800m last on Saturday with Marco Arop, the lads’s 4x100m relay (heats go Friday morning) and the decathlon (with Damian Warner and Pierce LePage), which begins Friday.
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