'Amazing season': Canada's Camryn Rogers up for World Athletics top women's athlete for 2026

Eleven hammer throw victories, Canadian title, Commonwealth Games gold medal and North American/national record. An impressive list of career highlights for any track and field athlete.

For Camryn Rogers, it’s a sample of the Canadian’s 2026 achievements.

It was a banner season for the reigning Olympic and world champion, who was announced Tuesday by World Athletics as one of 10 women’s athlete of the year nominees, selected by an international panel of athletics experts.

A four-way vote, which closes Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. ET, will determine the final ranking. Three women’s finalists will be unveiled Nov. 10 and the winner announced Nov. 29 at the World Athletics Awards in Monaco.

Rogers, from Richmond, B.C., capped her season with her 11th win, throwing 77.09 metres at the Silesia Diamond League stop in Chorzow, Poland.

“This season has been amazing. I have had the best throw of my life, and to close the season with this throw is wonderful,” Rogers said on Aug. 23 in Poland.

“I will go home to [Richmond], have a staycation and relax and then start to get ready in Texas for the next three years, with world champs and [2028 Los Angeles] Olympics.”

Rogers, teammate Katzberg sweep Silesia hammer throw events

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The 27-year-old boasted the five best performances of any women’s hammer thrower this season: 79.36, 79.63, 80.03, 80.09 and 81.13. The 81.13 is a North America and Canadian record, surpassing Rogers’s previous 80.51 mark from September 2025.

She trails only world-record holder Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland, who threw 82.98 on Aug. 28, 2016.

Camryn Rogers breaks her own Commonwealth Games record to strike gold in hammer throw

The Silesia victory followed a repeat