Camryn Rogers

Early life Rogers was born and raised in the Steveston neighbourhood of Richmond, British Columbia. Following her parents' divorce when she was three years old, she was raised by her mother, Shari Rogers, a hairdresser. Her mother would later say, "for many years, it was just her and I. Many struggles along the way. A lot of hardships." Rogers did not initially participate in any sports, but first tried the hammer throw on January 5, 2012, upon the recommendation of one of her mother's clients, who was a member of the Richmond Kajaks track club. She would later say, "fifteen minutes before the start of the first practice of the new year. I just decided I should go. There was no way of knowing until you did it." Rogers cited the 2012 Summer Olympics in London some months afterward as solidifying her interest in becoming an elite athlete. The following year, she won the women's hammer throw at the 2018 IAAF World U20 Championships, saying it was "really special. I think the thought of me being the world champion will really hit me later."

In 2019, Rogers won gold at the 2019 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships. This was a California student's first championship title in women's track and field since 2008. Athletics Canada awarded her the Eric E. Coy Trophy as national U20 athlete of the year. Rogers went on to make her debut at senior international championships, placing sixth in the hammer event at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the cancellation of much of the 2020 athletics season and the delay by a full year of the 2020 Summer Olympics, where Rogers had hoped to compete. Afterwards she was named to the Canadian team for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. She advanced to the final of the hammer throw event, the first Canadian woman to ever do so, and finished fifth.

Rogers won the bronze medal in the weight throw at NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, setting a new national record in the event . She then won her third title at the 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, setting another championship record with the ninth-best distance (77.67 m) in the history of women's hammer throw. Rogers then made her World Athletics Championships debut at the 2022 edition in Eugene, Oregon. Qualifying to the final of the hammer throw event, she won the silver medal with a best throw of 75.52 m. This was the first World medal for a Canadian woman in a field sport. Rogers went on to win the title with a 74.08 m third throw in the final, finishing four and a half metres clear of silver medallist Julia Ratcliffe of New Zealand. Fellow Canadian thrower Jillian Weir joined her on the podium as bronze medallist. In recognition of her achievements, Athletics Canada named her their 2022 Athlete of the Year.

2023–present: World and Olympic gold She graduated from Berkeley with her master's degree in cultural studies in sport and education in 2023, and started work as special education advocate in September 2023. Competing at the 2023 USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix in May, Rogers raised her Canadian national record to 78.62. This ranked her fifth in the world all-time list. On the 2023 World Athletics Continental Tour, Rogers finished second at both the Irena Szewińska Memorial in Poland and the Paavo Nurmi Games in Finland, in both cases coming behind reigning World champion Brooke Andersen.

Rogers entered the 2023 World Athletics Championships as a contender for the title, albeit with Andersen having recorded the five longest throws of the year to that point. After qualifying to the final, she won the gold medal based on her first throw of 77.22 metres. In so doing, she became the second Canadian woman to win gold at the World Athletics Championships, after Perdita Felicien's 2003 hurdles title. As well, she was part of a Canadian sweep of the hammer titles in Budapest, along with Ethan Katzberg's unexpected gold medal in the men's event. With her world championship gold in hand, she shortly afterwards acquired sponsorship from Nike, saying "I signed my name on the dotted line the day after the final."

Early in the 2024 athletics season, Rogers appeared at the Prefontaine Classic on the Diamond League, a circuit on which the hammer throw is not a regular feature. She won the event with a throw of 77.76 m, a new Diamond League record for the hammer throw. In the lead-up to the Parisian 2024 Summer Olympics, she was widely considered the favourite for the gold medal, which Rogers called "a testament to the work and the time and the sacrifices that my coach, my whole support system and I have made to really make this dream come true." In the final, Rogers initially led after the first round of throws, and retook the lead permanently with a 76.97 m throw in the penultimate fifth round, winning the gold medal. She finished almost 1.5 metres clear of American silver medalist Annette Echikunwoke. This was the first gold medal for a Canadian woman in track and field in 96 years, the two previous wins having come at the 1928 Summer Olympics, which saw women's athletics debut at the Olympics, as well as the first Canadian medal in women's hammer throw. With Katzberg having already claimed victory in the men's event, Canada swept the hammer throw at a second major championship.

Rogers won nine of her first ten events to start the 2025 season, with her only other result being a second-place finish. At the 2025 Prefontaine Classic on July 5, she improved the Canadian national record to 78.88 m. She entered the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo as the favourite to defend her title, four years after her Olympic debut in the same venue, which prompted her to note: "I was the youngest finalist up there competing, and there was so much that I still didn't know. I just feel like I've grown up a lot." This was the seventh-longest throw of all time, and the longest by anyone other than Poland's Anita Włodarczyk, who told Rogers "welcome to the 80-metre club" after the close of competition. Rogers became the first individual Canadian to successfully defend a World Athletics title.

At the start of the 2026 athletics season, Rogers, took gold at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays event in Austin. Her winning distance was 81.13 metres, the fourth-longest throw in history, further improving her national and area records. She won first at the 2026 Paavo Nurmi Games with a throw of 80.09 m.

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