Rogers Heaves 266-2 In 2026 Debut, Becomes Second Women's Hammer Thrower In History To Surpass 81 Meters

By Keenan Gray of DyeStat

Logan Hannigan-Downs photo

RESULTS

Three throws into her 2026 season, Camryn Rogers improved her own Canadian record and No. 2 all-time mark in the women's hammer throw Thursday afternoon at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.

Rogers, who won her second world title last September in Tokyo with a previous Canadian record throw of 80.51 meters (264-1), threw 81.13m (266-2) in round three, becoming the second woman in world history to throw over 81 meters.

Rogers' performance is the fourth-best mark recorded all-time behind only Polish athlete Anita Włodarczyk, a three-time Olympic champion, who has the top three throws all-time including her world record mark of 82.98m (272-3).

Second to Rogers by 8.5 meters in the competition was Brit Anna Purchase, throwing 72.63m (238-3). Texas State's Elisabet Runarsdottir was the top collegian in third overall, throwing 69.89m (229-3).

West Texas A&M's Esther Conde-Turpin broke the NCAA Division II women's heptathlon scoring record by 20 points with 6,161 points, beating Texas' Tabea Eitel with 5,648 points. Conde-Turpin won six of the seven events contested.

Texas Tech picked up four distance event wins from Titus Kimaru, Kyzer Dunbar, Victor Kipkoech and Lily Mather.

Kimaru ran within a second of his lifetime best in the men's 3,000 meters steeplechase, running an NCAA#6 8 minutes, 37.21 seconds to win by 29 seconds.

Mather won the women's steeplechase by 11 seconds in 10:28.32.

Dunbar won his second 800 of the season, running a personal best 1:49.26 to win the men's invitational.

Kipkoech fended off Odessa's Justus Soget Kiplagat by a second in the men's 5,000, 13:58.54 to 13:59.41.

Kentucky's Janet Jepkemboi Amimo won the women's invitational 800 in 2:03.88.

In high school races, Cooper Ford of Austin Bowie TX ran a US#1 6:01.74 to win the boys 2,000 steeplechase in 6:01.74, leading five runners total to make the U.S. top five season list.

Lucy Cramer of Parkview Baptist TX won the girls steeplechase in a US#1 6:50.15 while leading another five runners into the U.S. top six.

IMG Academy FL swept the boys (10:09.91) and girls (11:37.38) distance medley relays in US#1 times.