Canadian Olympic gold medalist Camryn Rogers of Richmond, British Columbia is a world champion for a second time. On Monday, Rogers had a hammer throw of 80.51 metres at the 2025 International Association of Athletics Federations World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. It was the second longest women’s hammer throw of all-time.
Rogers won a medal by 5.23 metres. Silja Kosonen of Finland finished in fourth place with a throw of 75.28 metres. Jie Zhao of China won the silver medal with a throw of 77.6 metres. Jiale Zhang of China won the bronze medal with a throw of 77.1 metres. The women’s hammer throw world record belongs to Poland’s Anita Wlodarczyk, who had a throw of 82.98 metres at the Kamila Skolimowska Memorial event in Warsaw, Poland on August 28, 2016.
The first gold medal for Rogers at the International Association of Athletics Federations World Athletics Championships came in Budapest, Hungary in 2023. She had a throw there of 77.27 metres. In the last two world championships, Rogers’s first throw would have won a gold medal. On Monday, Rogers’s first throw was 78.09 metres, which would have been good enough to win gold by 0.49 metres. Rogers also won a silver medal in the women’s hammer throw at the 2022 International Association of Athletics Federations World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
This was the second medal and second gold medal for Canada at the 2025 International Association of Athletics Federations World Athletics Championships. The first was from Evan Dunfee of Richmond, British Columbia in the men’s 35 kilometre walk.
When Rogers won a gold medal at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, she had a throw of 76.97 metres. Rogers’s gold medal in Tokyo on Monday will give her confidence as she prepares for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
