The 25-year-old from Richmond, B.C., booked her ticket to Paris with an impressive win at the Canadian Olympic trials Wednesday night
The women’s hammer throw world champion is embracing the expectations as a favourite to win Olympic gold at the Paris Olympics this summer.
Her world looks a lot different than it did the last Olympic cycle. At the Tokyo Games in 2021, she placed fifth as a 22-year-old college student at the University of California, Berkeley,Rogers won world championship silver in 2022 and gold last year to become the first Canadian female hammer thrower to medal on that stage. Her personal-best mark of 78.62 metres set in May 2023 makes her the fifth-furthest throwing woman of all time.
“ gave her that picture of, 'hey, you know what, I can I can do this, I can be with the top people in the world.' Three years later now, she's in quite a different spot.” Saatara and Rogers have studied footage of former champions like hammer thrower Yuriy Sedykh, discus thrower Alfred Oerter and shot putter Ryan Crouser, among many others, to see how they managed the pressure.
Rogers channelled that energy when she cleared the field with a 75.05-metre throw Wednesday despite feeling under the weather.The rise of Rogers, Katzberg and shot putter Sarah Mitton — a 2023 world silver medallist — has helped Canada gain a reputation as a throwing nation ahead of the Paris Games.
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