Camryn Rogers collects 8th win of women’s hammer throw season at Continental Tour meet

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.

Camryn Rogers 2nd in women's hammer throw event at Prefontaine Classic

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.

Canada's Camryn Rogers finishes 2nd in hammer throw at Diamond League's Prefontaine Classic

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