Hammer thrower Rogers, runner DeBues-Stafford victorious for Canada at Paavo Nurmi Games

Doug Harrison · CBC Sports

· Posted: Jun 17, 2025 3:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

Canadians grabbed a stock of the way and tract spotlight Tuesday, with hammer thrower Camryn Rogers and middle-distance runner Gabriela DeBues-Stafford winning their competitions astatine the 68th Paavo Nurmi Games successful Turku, Finland.

Rogers, the reigning satellite and Olympic champion, wasn't astatine her champion but victorious with a propulsion of 74.59 metres connected the 5th of her six attempts. She besides fouled 3 times.

"I consciousness good. There is inactive immoderate method [adjustments] to enactment connected from today," Rogers said.

"The Paavo Nurmi Games is 1 of my favourite meets. I emotion to vie here, the assemblage is crazy, they are truthful passionate and everyone loves hammer. So coming present is simply a immense privilege."

Hometown favourite Silja Kosonen was 2nd (73.21) astatine the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meet.

"Silja and [Finnish teammate] Krista [Tervo who was ninth Tuesday] are amazing. It is ever truthful overmuch amusive to vie with some of them," said Rogers. 

"It's specified a peculiar clip to beryllium a hammer thrower, particularly for women. I mean, we person galore of the apical 10 of all-time competing present and they are truthful supportive. We are a precise adjacent community."

WATCH | Rogers captures her 3rd of 4 hammer propulsion wins this play Tuesday successful Finland:

Rogers volition enactment successful Finland and vie astatine the 86th Kuortane Games connected Saturday earlier returning location to hole for the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League lawsuit connected July 5 successful Eugene, Ore.

The 26-year-old has a champion propulsion of 78.14 this play and 78.62 idiosyncratic best, a Canadian record.

Won Olympic golden past August successful Paris

The Richmond, B.C., autochthonal has won 2 of her different 3 events this play and was 2nd astatine the Trond Mohn Games connected June 3 successful Norway.

Rogers won an Olympic golden medal past Aug. 6 successful Paris and captured her archetypal satellite title rubric successful 2023. The lone Canadian pistillate to medal astatine the lawsuit successful hammer propulsion besides earned 2022 silver.

DeBues-Stafford, 29, has regained her winning signifier aboriginal successful the outdoor run pursuing 3 injury-marred seasons.

The Toronto autochthonal captured the women's 1,500 metres successful Finland for her 2nd consecutive triumph successful the region to commencement the season.

DeBues-Stafford reached the decorativeness enactment successful 4 minutes 2 seconds, her fastest contention successful implicit 3 years since going 3:58.62 astatine the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League conscionable connected May 28, 2022.

"I deliberation determination is much clip [to beryllium shaved] successful the future," DeBues-Stafford said aft the race, successful a substance connection to CBC Sports. "It was rather windy erstwhile we started [with] gusts of 40 kilometres per hr [but] the stadium blocked the worst of it."

She fell conscionable shy of the 4:01.50 automatic qualifying standard for the Sept. 13-21 World Athletics Championships successful Tokyo, and volition effort to little her clip connected Sunday at the Troyes International Athletics Meeting successful Aube, France.

DeBues-Stafford besides took astir 2 seconds disconnected her 4:03.81 effort from 3 weeks agone successful Belgium. She had a 2024 play champion of 4:15.09.

WATCH | Full replay sum of Paavo Nurmi Games from Turku:

On June 7, DeBues-Stafford met the 14:50 satellite modular successful the 5,000, going 14:47.83 astatine the FAST5000 contention successful Maisons-Laffitte, France.

She wants to suffice successful some events for the satellite championships.

"I similar the 1,500 a batch much than the 5,000," DeBues-Stafford said, "but with my injuries I was truly struggling to bash the velocity work. But I needed to bash it to amended successful the 5000."

Hampered by injuries

She entered this play having spent overmuch of the past 3 years dealing with accent fractures and troubles with her sacroiliac (SI) joint, which nexus the pelvis and little spine.

DeBues-Stafford, who was 5th successful the 2021 Olympic last successful Tokyo, is besides scheduled to contention the 1,500 connected July 4 astatine the Stanislas Nancy contention successful Tomblaine, France.

In the 2019 satellite final, the two-time Olympian ran 3:56.12 for 1 of her 7 nationalist indoor and outdoor records.

In the women's 100 connected Tuesday, Audrey Leduc of Gatineau, Que., placed 4th successful 11.16 seconds, 5-100ths of a 2nd faster than her vigor performance.

New Zealand's Zoe Hobbs, who topped each runners successful the heats with an 11.09 clocking, went 11.07 to seizure the last implicit Hungary's Boglárka Takács (11.11).

Leduc, 26, ran a Canadian grounds 10.95 to triumph her Olympic vigor past summertime earlier helping Canada's women's 100m relay squad to golden past period astatine the World Relays successful Guangzhou, China.

WATCH | Leduc 4th successful women's 100m, 9-100ths of a 2nd down victor Hobbs:

In the men's 100 final, Jerome Blake of Kelowna delivered a 10.09 SB for second in his 4th contention of the season, portion chap Canadian Andre De Grasse was sixth (10.23).

Blake, 29, won the archetypal of 2 heats successful 10.19 implicit South Africa's Benji Richardson, who was 2nd successful the last successful 10.09, 1-100th down Romell Glave of Great Britain.

Blake was a subordinate of the Canadian men's 100m relay squad, on with De Grasse, that won 2024 Olympic gold.

WATCH | Blake runs season-best 10.18 seconds successful men's 100m astatine Paavo Nurmi Games:

Other Canadian results:

• Quebec's Jean-Simon Desgagnes was 5th successful the men's 3,000m steeplechase connected Tuesday. Racing for the 3rd clip successful 9 days, his eight-minute 14.40-second showing is simply a play champion and a small implicit 1 2nd shy of his 8:13.11 SB past year. Germany's Frederik Ruppert won successful 8:10.39. Desgagnes, a autochthonal of Saint-Ferreol-les-Neiges competed astatine his archetypal Olympics successful 2024, finishing 13th successful the steeplechase final.

• Thomas Fafard of Repentigny, Que., was seventh of 15 finishers successful the men's 5,000m, stopping the timepiece successful 13 minutes 18.74 seconds for a play best. Belgium's John Heymans was victorious successful 13:03.87, besides a SB. This was Fafard's 2nd effort astatine the 13:01 automatic qualifying modular for the satellite championships. The 2024 Olympian 13:55.85 connected May 24 successful Los Angeles.

• Quebec City's Charles-Philibert-Thiboutot, the different subordinate of Canadian track's "Three Musketeers" with Desgagnes and Fafard, finished 12th of 13 finishers successful the men's 1,500 successful 3:38.17. Ermiyas Girma of Ethiopia prevailed successful a 3.33.49 PB. Philibert-Thiboutot is inactive seeking the 3:33 satellite modular (his PB is 3:32.94) but is apical Canadian successful the satellite rankings quota astatine 43 among the 56 to beryllium selected.

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