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It was far from her most memorable hammer throw of the season but enough for Camryn Rogers to secure her eighth win in 10 women’s competitions this season.
The Richmond, B.C., native held nearly a five-metre lead over Ireland’s Nicola Tuthill on Friday before increasing her advantage by launching a sixth and final attempt 75.97, her shortest throw for a victory this year at the Morton Games in Dublin.
Like Rogers, Tuthill saved her best throw for last with a 71.07 effort, while no other athlete in the field of 10 reached 70 metres. Five of the Canadian’s six throws topped 75.
Three times this season the 27-year-old has topped 80 metres, including an 81.13 best, but not over the past five events.
Rogers, the world’s top-ranked women’s hammer thrower, is the reigning Olympic and world champion.
She threw slightly further on Wednesday, 76.16, for the victory in Cork, Ireland.
Rogers threw 77.81 on July 4, finishing second to China’s Zhang Jiale at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meet in Eugene, Ore.
Last month, Rogers won her sixth title at the Canadian track and field championships in Ottawa.
Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., went 77.81 metres on her best throw to place second in the hammer throw at Diamond League’s stop in Eugene, Oregon.
Plourde places 9th
Middle-distance runner Simone Plourde was the only other Canadian competing at the World Athletics Continental Tour Bronze meet on Friday in Ireland.
In the women’s 1,500, the Montreal native placed ninth of 14 finishers in four minutes 10.23 seconds, nearly three seconds faster than her previous season best of 4:13.72.
Plourde was third in the women’s 5,000 at nationals on June 18.
The 26-year-old has also raced an 800 and a five-kilometre road race this year.
“I’m allowing myself to try new things and we’re experimenting a bit with everything,” she told French-language online newspaper La Presse in June, referring to her coach Samuel Marion.
Plourde is back living in Montreal after nearly six years in the United States, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology at the University of Utah.
Plourde turned pro, signing a five-year contract with Nike, and joined the Oregon-based Union Athletics Club. But her relationship with coach Pete Julian was strained and the club was later dissolved.
Plourde stepped away from athletics following a fourth-place performance in the women’s 1,500 last August and didn’t return until this past April in a 5 km road race in Carlsbad, Calif.
A first-time Olympian two years ago in Paris, she would welcome an invite to the Commonwealth Games later this month but is primarily focused on being in top form for the World Athletics Championships next September in Beijing.
This fall, Plourde will begin medical studies in Quebec at the University of Sherbrooke’s Longueuil campus.
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