Camryn Rogers tops her own Canadian record to win hammer throw at Prefontaine Classic

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 05, 2025 5:33 PM EDT | Last Updated: 32 minutes ago

Camryn Rogers bettered her ain Canadian grounds to triumph the women's hammer throw at the Prefontaine Classic connected Saturday successful Eugene, Oregon.

The 26-year-old from Richmond, B.C., won the lawsuit with a 78.88-metre propulsion – topping her erstwhile nationalist grounds of 78.62, acceptable successful 2023.

Rogers, the reigning satellite and Olympic champion, achieved the people connected the 4th of her six attempts. Americans Brooke Andersen (76.95) and DeAnna Price (75.35) placed down Rogers.

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The effect was besides a caller Diamond League grounds for Rogers, who acceptable the erstwhile people of 77.76 astatine the aforesaid venue successful 2024. 

In the men's hammer throw, Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C. placed 2nd successful the men's hammer throw. The reigning satellite and Olympic champion had a champion of 81.73 metres connected the day.

Fellow Canadian, Rowan Hamilton of Chilliwack, B.C. threw 76.36m connected his last effort to decorativeness 7th.

American Rudy Winkler finished archetypal with a personal-best people of 83.16m. 

Sarah Mitton of Brooklyn, N.S. took 2nd successful the women's changeable enactment with a champion of 20.39 metres for the day.

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Mitton, who is the reigning satellite champion, indoor and outdoor, finished down American Chase Jackson, who threw 20.94.

This year's Prefontaine Classic, besides a Diamond League event, included four Para athletics events, 2 of which featured Canadian athletes.

Toronto's Marissa Papaconstantinou finished 6th (13.15) successful the Para mixed classification 100m, and Nandini Sharma, of Brampton, Ont., finished 6th (2:01.82) in the Para athletics 800m T54 event.

Kipyegon breaks own satellite record

Kenyan Faith Kipyegon acceptable a satellite grounds successful the 1,500 meters connected Saturday astatine the Prefontaine Classic, finishing successful 3 minutes, 48.68 seconds.

Kipyegon, a three-time Olympic champion successful the event, bested her ain grounds of 3:49.04 successful the event, acceptable past July earlier the Paris Games.

Kipyegon, 31, sprinted unsocial down the agelong astatine Hayward Field cheered by the crowd. After crossing the decorativeness line, she wrapped herself successful the Kenyan flag.

Ethiopian Diribe Welteji was runner-up successful 3:51.44.

Last period Kipyegon failed successful a bid to go the archetypal pistillate to tally a mile successful nether 4 minutes. She ran 4:06.42 — the fastest mile successful past by a pistillate — astatine Stade Charlety successful Paris.

Her clip was amended than her satellite grounds of 4:07.64 but won't beryllium recognized due to the fact that the Nike-sponsored lawsuit was unofficial.

Kipyegon besides has won the 1,500 astatine the past 3 World Championships. She was 2nd successful the 5,000 astatine the Paris Olympics past summer.

World grounds for Chebet 

Kenyan Beatrice Chebet acceptable a satellite grounds successful the 5,000 meters, winning the lawsuit successful 13 minutes, 58.06 seconds Saturday astatine the Prefontaine Classic.

Chebet became the archetypal women to tally nether 14 minutes successful the event, surpassing the erstwhile grounds of 14:00.21 acceptable by Ethiopian Gudaf Tsegay. Tsegay acceptable the grounds astatine the 2023 Prefontaine Classic.

Chebet, 25, was the golden medallist successful the 5,000 and 10,000 astatine the Paris Olympics, becoming conscionable the 3rd pistillate to triumph both.

Chebet had the erstwhile satellite champion this twelvemonth successful the event, moving 14:06.39 past period successful Rome.

The Prefontaine Classic is the lone U.S. halt connected the Diamond League way and tract series.