PARIS — On her second-last throw of the night, Camryn Rogers found another gear.

Sitting in second place on the leaderboard, Rogers spun and released the hammer down the middle of the field. It flew over the 75-metre mark and landed with a thud: 76.97 metres. In a tight field where Rogers had been trailing first China’s Jia Zhao and later America’s Annette Echikunwoke, Rogers had finally muscled herself into the gold-medal position.