Camryn Rogers, 23
Hammer throw
Bronze medal, 2022 World Athletics Championships
Camryn Rogers is Canada’s most decorated hammer thrower and the youngest to advance to an Olympic Games final (she finished fifth at Tokyo 2020). During the height of the lockdown in the fall of 2020, when most athletic facilities were closed, Rogers upped her running routine to four days a week. “Focused recovery runs,” she says, “helped me stay in tune with how my body was feeling and moving.” Rogers adds that she finds the kind of recovery-based running she does to be therapeutic: “It gives you a lot of time to think, and kind of zone out and be with yourself.” Rogers’s current fall training involves running one or two laps of the track to warm up, then sprints and stairs.
Rogers’s mom is an accomplished marathoner who’s training for her third Chicago Marathon. “She’s amazing!” says Rogers. “She’s one of the fittest people I know. It’s definitely motivating.”
Rosey Ugochukwu Edeh is a three-time Olympian, former Canadian record holder in the 400m hurdles and World Cup gold medallist, the founder of Micha Muse Media and an award-winning filmmaker, veteran television host, broadcaster and freelance writer. She has covered the Olympic Games in Beijing (summer and winter), Vancouver and Tokyo. She serves on the board of directors of Athletics Canada.