Canada has gained 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 gained silver finally 12 months’s world championships in Eugene, Ore., has taken the gold, attaining 77.22 metres in her first throw on Thursday, hanging on for the win.
Earlier this week, Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., gained gold within the males’s hammer throw, scoring a private finest and nationwide report of 81.25 metres.
Rogers’s throw was virtually a metre farther than silver medallist Janee’ Kassanavoid of the U.S. (76.36 metres). DeAnna Worth 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 may need hoped, although she was nonetheless a favorite to achieve the rostrum in Budapest; she produced higher outcomes than anybody else within the discipline on 4 of her throws.
“Each single competitors is a chance to be taught and do higher,” says Rogers in a post-race interview. “Having the ability to go into worlds final 12 months and win silver was extremely useful, and now to face right here with this gold– it means the world.”
Her silver medal finally 12 months’s world championships was the first-ever medal within the sport for Canada, and since final 12 months, 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.
Picture: 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 during which Canada has potential medal contenders; these embrace the boys’s 200m ultimate on Friday with Andre De Grasse, the boys’s 800m ultimate on Saturday with Marco Arop, the boys’s 4x100m relay (heats go Friday morning) and the decathlon (with Damian Warner and Pierce LePage), which begins Friday.
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