The Canadians obtained a part of the athletics attention on Tuesday, with the Camryn Rogers hammer pitcher and the medium-distance medium distance corridor Gabriela-Stafford won its competitions in the 68 PAAVO NURMI Games in Turku, Finland.
Rogers, the current world and the Olympic champion, was not at his best but victorious with a 74.59 meters launch in the fifth of his six attempts. She also committed a foul three times.
“I feel good. There is still something technical [adjustments] To work from today, “Rogers said.
“Paavo Nurmi’s games are one of my favorite meetings. I love competing here, the crowd is crazy, they are very passionate and everyone loves the hammer. So coming here is a great privilege.”
The favorite of the city, Silja Kosonen, was second (73.21) at the Continental Tour Gold Meet Athletics World Cup.
“Silja and [Finnish teammate] Krista [Tervo who was ninth Tuesday] They are incredible. It’s always fun to compete with both of them, “Rogers said.
“It is such a special time to be a hammer pitcher, especially for women. I mean, we have many of the 10 best of all time now and now they are very supportive. We are a very close community.”
Look | Rogers captures his third of the 4 hammer victories this season on Tuesday in Finland:
Richmond’s native, BC, scored 75.59 meters in his fifth launch to ensure the female hammer competition in the Athletics Continental Tour World Cup in Turku, Finland.
Rogers will stay in Finland and compete in the 86th Kuortane Games on Saturday before returning home to prepare for the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League event on July 5 in Eugene, Ore.
The 26 -year -old has a better 78.14 launch this season and 78.62 best staff, a Canadian record.
He won the Olympic gold last August in Paris
The Native of Richmond, BC, has won two of his other three events this season and was second at Trond Mohn on June 3 in Norway.
Rogers won an Olympic gold medal on August 6 on August 6 in Paris and captured his first world championship title in 2023. The only Canadian woman at the medal at the event at Hammer Throw also won 2022 Plata.
Debues-Stafford, 29, has recovered its winning form at the beginning of the outdoor campaign after three married seasons with injuries.
The Native of Toronto captured the 1,500 meters of women in Finland for his second consecutive victory in the distance to start the season.
Debues-Stafford reached the finish line in four minutes two seconds, his fastest career in more than three years since he was 3: 58.62 at the Prefontaine Classic Diamond League meeting on May 28, 2022.
“I think there is more time [to be shaved] In the future, “said Debues-Stafford after the race, in a text message to CBC Sports.” It was quite winding when we started [with] 40 -kilometer bursts per hour [but] The stadium blocked the worst. “
She barely fell the 4: 01.50 automatic qualification standard for the World Athletics Championship from September 13 to 21 in Tokyo, and will try to reduce her time on Sunday at the Troyes International Athletics Meeting in Aube, France.
Debues-Stafford also took almost two seconds of his effort of 4: 03.81 three weeks ago in Belgium. She had a better season of 4: 15.09.
Look | Complete reproduction coverage of the Turku Nurmi Games:
See all the action of the continental tour of Athletics World Athletics of 2025 in Turku, Finland.
On June 7, Debues-Stafford complied with the world standard 14:50 at 5,000, going 14: 47.83 in Fast5000 competition in Maisons-Laffitte, France.
She wants to qualify for both events for the World Championship.
“I like 1,500 much more than 5,000,” said Debues-Stafford, “but with my injuries I was really struggling to do the speed work. But I needed to do it to improve in 5000.”
Hindered by injuries
He entered this season after having spent much of the last three years dealing with fractures of stress and problems with his sacroiliac articulation (SI), which unites the pelvis and the spine.
Debues-Stafford, who was fifth in the 2021 Olympic final in Tokyo, is also scheduled to compete with 1,500 on July 4 in Stanislas Nancy competition in Tomblaine, France.
In the 2019 World Final, the two -time Olympic ran 3: 56.12 for one of its seven national interior and exterior records.
In the 100 female on Tuesday, Audrey Leduc de Gatineau, which, was fourth in 11.16 seconds, 5-100 of a second faster than its heat performance.
New Zealand Zoe Hobbs, which headed all runners in the heats with a score of 11.09, was 11.07 to capture the final on Hungary Boglárka Takács (11.11).
Leduc, 26, directed a 10.95 Canadian record to win its Olympic heat last summer before helping the Canadian women’s relay team last month in the world relay in Guangzhou, China.
Look | 4th Leduc in 100m female, 9-100 of a second behind the winner Hobbs:
The 27 -year -old Olympic recorded a moment of 11.07 seconds to win the Sprint during the world meeting of the continental athletics tour in Turku, Finland. Audrey Leduc de Gatineau, which. Placed fourth with a time of 11.16 seconds.
In the final 100 male, Jerome Blake of Kelowna delivered a 10.09 SB for the second in his fourth race of the season, while his Canadian partner Andre de Grasse was sixth (10.23).
Blake, 29, won the first of two heats at 10.19 about Benji Richardson in South Africa, who was second in the final in 10.09, 1-100 behind Romanell Glave in Great Britain.
Blake was a member of the relay team of 100 meters of Canadian men, along with De Grasse, who won the 2024 Olympic gold.
Look | Blake runs the best 10.18 second season in 100 male meters in Paavo Nurmi games:
The 29 -year -old Olympic ended 0.01 seconds behind Romell Glave in Great Britain for a score of 10.09 seconds to be the runner -up in the Sprint in the Athletic Continental Tour Reuns World Cup in Turku, Finland.
Other Canadian results:
- Jean-Simon Quebec disaggers was fifth in the male obstacle race of 3,000 m on Tuesday. Running for the third time in nine days, his eight -minute performance of 14.40 seconds is a better season and a little more than a second less than his 8: 13.11 SB last year. Frederik Ruppert from Germany won at 8: 10.39. Disagnes, originally from Saint-Ferreol-Lles-Neiges competed in its first Olympic Games in 2024, ending 13th in the Steeplechase final.
- Thomas Fafard de Debentigny, which., He was seventh of 15 finalists in the 5,000m male, stopping the clock in 13 minutes 18.74 seconds for a better season. John Heymans of Belgium was victorious in 13: 03.87, also an SB. This was Fafard’s second attempt at the 13:01 automatic classification standard for the World Championship. The Olympic 2024 13: 55.85 on May 24 in Los Angeles.
- Charles-Philibert-Thiboutot of Quebec City, the other “Three Musketeers” member of Canadian Track with Disagnes and Fafard, finished 12th of 13 finalists in the 1,500 men in 3: 38.17. Ermiyas Girma de Ethiopia prevailed at 3.33.49 bp. Philibert-Thiboutot is still looking for the world standard 3:33 (its PB is 3: 32.94), but it is the Canadian classification quota in the world in 43 among the 56 that will be selected.
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