Olympic hammer champion Camryn Rogers shows off a world-leading 80.09m at the Paavo Nurmi Games, while Jazmin Sawyers, Lawrence Okoye and Rommel Glaive put in strong British performances.
Olympic champion Camryn Rogers stole the show at the Paavo Nurmi Games in Turku on Wednesday (June 3) when she smashed the meet record in the hammer with a world-leading 80.09m on her final attempt.
The Canadian, already the second-best performer in history, had her third throw of the season over 80m, finishing well ahead of Finland’s Silja Kosonen (76.41m) and Krista Tervoi (75.55m).
Among the British performances, Jazmine Sawyers finished second in the long jump with a season’s best of 6.62m, leading most of the competition before being overtaken by American Mona Nicholls, who jumped a meet record of 6.88m.
Lawrence Okoye continued his promising 2026 form in the discus with a fourth-place finish of 67.15m in a top-class event won by Kristian Cech (69.13m), while Rommel Glaive secured Britain’s victory in the men’s 100m in 10.16.
Elsewhere, meet records were also set by Chase Jackson in the women’s shot put (20.66m), Emmanuel Karalis in the men’s pole vault (6.00m), Imogen Ayris in the women’s pole vault (4.81m), and both in the pole vault.
Spain’s Mohamed Atawi won the men’s 1,500m in 3:31.82, with the top 12 runners all breaking the previous meet record.
