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Camryn Rogers
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1999-06-07 ) June 7, 1999 (age 27) , Richmond, British Columbia
- Height
- 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
- Country
- Canada
- Sport
- Track and field
- Event
- Hammer throw
- College team
- California Golden Bears (2018 – 2022)
- Coached by
- Mo Saatara
- Highest world ranking
- 1st (2023)
- Personal bests
- 81.13 m (266 ft 2 in) NR , AR Austin , 2026
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Rogers
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Richmond
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- Canada
- Image
- WKBO3897 hammer W final Rogers (53172501717).jpg
- Height
- 170
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- date of birth
- 1999-06-07
- sports discipline competed in
- hammer throw
- Commons category
- Camryn Rogers
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Encyclopedic overview
Camryn Rogers (born June 7, 1999) is a Canadian athlete specializing in the hammer throw. She is the 2024 Olympic champion and a two-time world champion (2023, 2025) in that discipline, in both instances the first Canadian woman to win that title. Rogers was only the second Canadian woman to win gold at the World Athletics Championships in any discipline, and was the first to win more than one. Her Olympic gold medal was the first for a Canadian woman in track and field in 96 years.
Rogers is also the 2022 World silver medallist, 2022 Commonwealth Games champion, 2018 world U20 champion, and represented Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She competed at the collegiate level as a member of the California Golden Bears track and field team, winning three NCAA outdoor titles.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Camryn Rogers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.