2024 Track & Field Roster

Rowan Hamilton

  • Position Throws
  • Class Sixth Year
  • Hometown Chilliwack, B.C.
  • Last School(s) Sardis Secondary/British Columbia

Biography

CAREER HIGHS:
Discus:
43.36m (142-3)
Hammer: 77.78m (253-2)
Weight: 22.36m (73-4)

2024 (Outdoor): In the men's hammer Olympic final, finished ninth with a throw of 76.59m (251-3) to tie for the best Olympic finish by a Cal men's hammer thrower (Jack Merchant, Paris 1924)... in the Olympic qualifying round, recorded a new personal best of 77.78m (255-2) to auto-qualify for the final and move up to No. 3 in Canadian history... was named to Team Canada for the Olympic Games after taking second at the Bell Canadian Championships with a mark of 75.83m (248-9)… USTFCCCA West Region Men's Field Athlete of the Year... competed in seven meets for the Bears… won Cal’s first NCAA men’s hammer title since 1922, as well as the first by a Canadian man since 1979, with a personal-best 77.18m (253-2), re-setting his own school record as well as the top mark in the country that season and the No. 8 collegiate performance of all time… won Cal’s first Pac-12 title in the men’s hammer since 1919 with a throw of 76.53m (251-1)… named the Pac-12 Men’s Field Athlete of the Week on May 7… Cal’s Gatorade Student-Athlete of the Month (April)… set a new Big Meet hammer record with a mark of 74.46m (244-3)… named the Pac-12 Men’s Field Athlete of the Week on April 23… threw the hammer 77.16m (253-1) at the Mt. SAC Relays… broke the Brutus Hamilton Invitational meet record with a mark of 75.05m (246-3)… USTFCCCA Outdoor Men’s Field Scholar Athlete of the Year… CSC Second-Team Academic All-American.

2024 (Indoor): Second-Team All-American… appeared in three meets for Cal… was Cal’s first male weight thrower to ever make the NCAA Indoor Championships, where he finished 12th with a mark of 21.52m (70-7.25)… broke his own program record at the Ken Shannon Invitational by tossing the weight 22.36m (73-4.5), good for second place and the 16th-best mark in the country… broke the weight throw program record in his career indoor debut with a mark of 21.98m (72-1.5).

BRITISH COLUMBIA (2019-23): Appeared at the World Championships in 2022 and 2023, respectively finishing 17th and 13th in the hammer throw… took silver at the 2023 Bell Canadian Championships… finished his career at British Columbia with the 14th best hammer throw mark in collegiate history and the 27 best throws in NAIA history… was undefeated in collegiate fields since May 10, 2019… three-time NAIA hammer champion (2019, 2022-23)… 2023 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NAIA West Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year… 2023 NAIA Scholar-Athlete… 2023 Cascade Collegiate Conference (CCC) Rize Laboratory Track and Field Male Athlete of the Year… finished third in the hammer throw at the 2022 North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association (NACAC) Championships after taking ninth at the Commonwealth Games… finished third at that year’s Bell Canadian Championships… 2022 CCC WVT Laboratory Male Track and Field Male Athlete of the Year… broke the NAIA Championships record on the way to his second of three NAIA titles… also posted the eighth best throws on the all-college list that year and set a Canadian U23 record… in 2019, won the U20 Canadian championship title by nearly 10 meters… was also the 2019 Pan American U20 hammer champion.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2018 Canadian U20 hammer runner-up… won both the hammer and the discus titles at the Langley BC High School Championships that year… in 2017, won the hammer throw and finished third in the discus at the Brandon Canadian U18 Championships… that year, he finished seventh in the hammer throw at the Trujillo Pan American U20 Championships after taking second at the Ottawa Canadian U20 Championships… runner-up in both the hammer and discus at the 2017 Langley BC High School Championships… finished third in the hammer throw at the 2016 Sainte-Therese Canadian U18 Championships.

PERSONAL: Earned a business certificate in entrepreneurship at Cal... graduated from British Columbia in 2023 with a degree in biology.