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1. Valerie Adams
New Zealand shotput representative

2. Bio
Nationality New Zealand
Born October 6, 1984 (age 27)
Rotorua, New Zealand
Height 1.96 metres (6 ft 5 in)
Sport shotput
Country New Zealand
SportShot put
Coached by Jean-Pierre Egger (2010–present)

3. Valerie and sports
Valerie is a shot putter from New
Zealand. She is the women's Olympic
champion and three-time World
champion, two-time Commonwealth
and World Indoor champion. She
currently holds the New Zealand,
Oceanian, Commonwealth and equal
World Championship records with a
personal best throw of 21.24 metres.
Adams is one of only seven athletes
to win world championships at the
youth, junior, and senior level of an
athletic event.

4. Early Career
In 1998 Valerie Adams first met former javelin thrower
Kirsten Hellier, who would become her coach for the next
11 years.
She first came to notice when winning the World Youth
Championships in 2001, with a throw of 16.87 m. She
followed this up in 2002 by becoming World Junior
champion, throwing 17.73 m, and had her first taste of
senior success winning a silver medal at the
Commonwealth Games with 17.45 m.
She finished fifth at the 2003 World Championships at
eighteen years of age. At her first Olympics in 2004,
Adams finished eighth, while still recovering from

5. The following year, She earned a place in the
Later career
international elite, winning a bronze medal at
the World Championships with a personal best
throw of 19.87 m, and going on to finish second
at the World Athletics Final. At the 2006
Commonwealth Games the 1.96 m-tall athlete
won the gold medal, breaking the 20-year-old
Commonwealth Games record of 19.00 m with
a throw of 19.66 m.
She also won the New Zealand Sports Award of
the year in 2008.
Adams won the 2011 World Championships
equalling the championship record 21.24 met
by Natalya Lisovskaya in 1987. At the 2012

6. Personal life
Valerie was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, to a
Tongan mother (Lilika Ngauamo) and an
English father. She was married to Bertrand Vili,
a discus thrower from New Caledonia, but
divorced him early in 2010. Valerie has several
brothers over seven feet tall; her youngest
brother, Steven, is a basketball player at Notre
Dame Prep in Massachusetts, United States.
She is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints.