Where will Valerie Adams get her medal? - Olympics 2012. Valerie Adams wants to share her Olympic gold medal with all New Zealanders, and it seems they want to share it with her too - but the question is when and where?
The shot-put champion is competing in Europe and will not return until next month at the earliest. It could also take months to strip Belarusian Nadzeya Ostapchuk of her London medal after she tested positive for the banned steroid metenolone. Calls are growing for a victory ceremony in New Zealand as soon as possible - even if Adams has not received her medal. A ceremony for the 27-year-old before the All Blacks play Australia at Eden Park on Saturday week was popular online. A parade through downtown Auckland, similar to the one held for the victorious All Blacks after the Rugby World Cup, also has been suggested. Valerie Adams. Valerie Kasanita Adams (formerly known as Valerie Vili), ONZM (born 6 October 1984) is a shot putter from New Zealand.
She is a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion and two-time Olympic and Commonwealth champion. She currently holds the New Zealand, Oceanian, Commonwealth and equal World Championship records with a personal best throw of 21.24 metres. Career[edit] In 1998 Adams met former javelin thrower Kirsten Hellier, who would become her coach for the next 11 years. Adams first came to prominence when winning the World Youth Championships in 2001, with a throw of 16.87 m. She finished fifth at the 2003 World Championships at eighteen years of age.
In 2007, Adams went to the Osaka World Championships as a favourite to take a medal due to her being one of only three women to throw over 20 m before the championships. At the 2009 Grande Prêmio Rio in Brazil Adams won the competition with a new personal best and Oceanian area record of 20.69 m. Personal life[edit] Valerie Adams - Kids. Early Life Valerie Adams was born on 6 October, 1984, in Rotorua.
She first began competing aged 14, after taking part in a school competition and being seen by Kirsten Hellier, later her coach. Her Tongan mother died from cancer when Valerie was 16. Her father was an Englishman who settled in New Zealand. He had 18 children. In 1999 she competed in her first World Youth Championships, finishing in tenth place. Valerie attended her first Olympic Games in Athens in 2004, just a month after being operated on for appendicitis. Valerie married New Caledonian discus thrower Bertrand Vili in late 2004. In December 2004, Valerie (now Vili) broke Val Young’s New Zealand record of 17.26m, which Young threw at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
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If you have any enquiries concerning the information, please use the Contact IAAF page, selecting ‘Focus on Athletes Biographies’ in the drop down menu of contact area options. Valerie Adams loses Olympic shot. Last updated 00:00 06/09/2007 INQUIRING: Watercare's Jonathan Piggot with Rachael White, 9, Georgia Dakin and Molly Bennett, both 8, from Meadowbank School.
Meadowbank School's year 4 students have been studying Auckland, our home, this term. As part of the study, room 5 students Rachael White, 9, Georgia Dakin and Molly Bennett, both 8, set out to find what happens each time a toilet is flushed. They were given a tour of the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant by Jonathan Piggot of Watercare Services. The trip was organised by Matt Mates, senior wastewater treatment specialist with consulting engineers AWT New Zealand. Mr Mates was involved with designing and commissioning the plant over eight years. Meadowbank School makes environmental issues a major part of the curriculum and is one of just five Green Gold Enviroschools in New Zealand. The school received the national supreme award for environmental education in 2005. Valerie Adams left off startlist. Last updated 13:43 06/08/2012 The New Zealand Olympic Committee is refusing to answer any questions over how someone forgot to register defending champion and gold medal favourite Valerie Adams for the 2012 Olympic Games.
The startling mistake emerged only hours before Adams' Olympic shot put title defence, forcing the NZOC to plead for an emergency amendment from the International Olympic Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations. The IOC and IAAF have relented and Adams is in, but serious questions remain around the oversight which angered Adams on the eve of her Olympic title defence. But Dave Currie, chef de mission of the New Zealand Olympic team, said the NZOC would not be responding to the snafu until it had the answers to what happened. "The questions being asked are very good questions, but we need a little while to ascertain quite what has happened and how to deal with it," Currie told Fairfax Media.
BBC Sport - London 2012 Olympics - Valerie Adams : New Zealand, Athletics. NZ sports star: Valerie Adams.