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Camryn Rogers won a second consecutive women’s hammer throw title at the Kip Keino Classic on Friday, while fellow Canadian Ethan Katzberg prevailed in the men’s event for a third consecutive year at Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi.
Rogers, from Richmond, B.C., had a top throw of 80.03 metres, which was 4.84 clear of France’s Rose Loga (75.19), her closest competitor in the World Athletics Continental Tour gold track and field meet.
Rogers, 26, is coming off her second world title win last summer, and is also the defending Olympic champion after taking gold at Paris 2024. She also beat her own winning mark of 77.93 from the 2025 edition of the Kip Keino Classic.
WATCH | Rogers tops her winning hammer throw from 2025 Kip Keino Classic:
B.C.’s Camryn Rogers wins the hammer throw in Nairobi
Camryn Rogers of Richmond, B.C., wins the hammer throw competition at the World Athletics Continental Tour stop in Nairobi, Kenya, with a throw of 80.03 metres
Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., also a two-time world champion and defending Olympic champion in the men’s hammer throw, topped Friday’s seven-man field with a season world-leading throw of 82.43, 30 centimetres shy of his 2025 performance at the competition.
The three-time reigning Canadian champion finished 1.14m ahead of Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Kokhan, the 2024 Olympic bronze medallist.
Volodymyr Myslyvcuk of the Czech Republic was a distant third (77.71).
Katzberg, who turned 24 on April 5, won the Kip Keino event in 2024 (84.38) and was second the previous year (76.38).
Last Sept. 16, he set a North American, Canadian and meet mark with a 84.70 effort at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo.
WATCH | Katzberg beats Ukrainian opponent by 1.14m to win men’s hammer throw:
Canadian Ethan Katzberg wins for a 3rd straight time in Nairobi
Ethan Katzberg of Nanaimo, B.C., won his third consecutive Kip Keino Classic hammer throw in Kenya, with his second round throw of 82.43, which is a 2026 world lead.
Omanyala clocks 9.96 to win men’s 100m
On the track Friday, Toronto sprinter Aaron Brown placed third (10.15 seconds) behind Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala, who reached the finish in a season-best 9.96, and South Africa’s Rivaldo Roberts (10.12).
Roberts’s teammate, Gift Leotela, was disqualified after a false start.
WATCH | Omanyala captures men’s 100m before boisterous home crowd:
Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala wins 100m on home track while Toronto’s Aaron Brown places 3rd
Kenya’s Ferdinand Omanyala won the men’s 100-metre race at the Kip Keino Classic in Nairobi, with a winning time of 9.96 seconds. Aaron Brown, of Toronto, finished third in a time of 10.15.
It was the second 100 race of the season for Brown, who went 10.26 on April 18 at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational in Gainesville, Fla.
He opened his outdoor season earlier this month with a victory in the 4×100 relay at the Miramar Invitational in Florida.
Brown, 33, was a member of Canada’s men’s 100m relay squad that captured a world championship silver medal last Sept. 20.
Canadian anchor Andre De Grasse battled Noah Lyles down the home stretch, but the American pulled away over the final metres to reach the finish line in a world-leading 37.29 seconds at Japan National Stadium.
WATCH | Full replay coverage of Friday’s event in Nairobi:
World Athletics Continental Tour Nairobi
Watch coverage of the World Athletics Continental Tour meet from Nairobi.
