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Greatest moments in Otago sport - Number 13 swimming
No 13: Jean Stewart wins Olympic bronze (1952)
Jean Stewart (right) and fellow Olympic swimmer Lincoln Hurring, her future husband, in Dunedin in 1952. Photo by ODT Files. Otago's Jean Stewart was the first - and is still the only - New Zealand female swimmer to win an Olympic medal.
She won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke in Helsinki in 1952, behind world record holder Geertje Wielema (Holland) and Joan Harrison (South Africa) in 1min 15.8sec. She also collected Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the same race in 1950 and 1954.
Stewart, a proud member of the Otago Girls' High School wall of fame, started serious training when she was at school.
"I used to train at the Tepid Baths in Moray Place in my lunchtime from school and had to dodge other swimmers during a public session," Stewart recalled.
" I virtually never got to use a 50m pool." Stewart was a pioneer. She and future husband Lincoln Hurring were the first New Zealand swimmers to put in huge hours of pool training.
Strangely, Stewart was initially scared of the water. Her older sisters would throw her in to force her to swim.
"I discovered that if I lay on my back it was easier, and that's how I got started in backstroke," she said.
"My training was by guess and by God. My coach, Bill Wallace, was more of an enthusiast than a swimming expert. He knew about horse racing, so he trained me like a horse."
The New Zealand team travelled to Helsinki by plane instead of boat and it made a big difference.
The Olympic team had no swimming coach or manager. In Sydney on the way over Stewart had to train in the harbour because the pool was available only to men.
Stewart arrived in London three weeks before the Olympics, but again could not find a suitable pool to train, and training time was also short at Helsinki.
"We didn't even have a stopwatch. We really had no idea how we were going," she said.
Stewart felt a big responsibility on the day of the heat to justify her selection. Her time was the fourth-fastest overall and she qualified for the final.
"I made a slow start in the final and that was always a problem for me," she said.
Though Stewart continued to compete for another four years, the 1952 Olympic bronze medal marked the peak of her career.
Stewart married Lincoln Hurring and they settled in Auckland and remained heavily involved in swimming.
Their son, Gary, won a Commonwealth Games gold medal and a world championship silver medal.
Jean Stewart (right) and fellow Olympic swimmer Lincoln Hurring, her future husband, in Dunedin in 1952. Photo by ODT Files. Otago's Jean Stewart was the first - and is still the only - New Zealand female swimmer to win an Olympic medal.
She won a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke in Helsinki in 1952, behind world record holder Geertje Wielema (Holland) and Joan Harrison (South Africa) in 1min 15.8sec. She also collected Commonwealth Games bronze medals in the same race in 1950 and 1954.
Stewart, a proud member of the Otago Girls' High School wall of fame, started serious training when she was at school.
"I used to train at the Tepid Baths in Moray Place in my lunchtime from school and had to dodge other swimmers during a public session," Stewart recalled.
" I virtually never got to use a 50m pool." Stewart was a pioneer. She and future husband Lincoln Hurring were the first New Zealand swimmers to put in huge hours of pool training.
Strangely, Stewart was initially scared of the water. Her older sisters would throw her in to force her to swim.
"I discovered that if I lay on my back it was easier, and that's how I got started in backstroke," she said.
"My training was by guess and by God. My coach, Bill Wallace, was more of an enthusiast than a swimming expert. He knew about horse racing, so he trained me like a horse."
The New Zealand team travelled to Helsinki by plane instead of boat and it made a big difference.
The Olympic team had no swimming coach or manager. In Sydney on the way over Stewart had to train in the harbour because the pool was available only to men.
Stewart arrived in London three weeks before the Olympics, but again could not find a suitable pool to train, and training time was also short at Helsinki.
"We didn't even have a stopwatch. We really had no idea how we were going," she said.
Stewart felt a big responsibility on the day of the heat to justify her selection. Her time was the fourth-fastest overall and she qualified for the final.
"I made a slow start in the final and that was always a problem for me," she said.
Though Stewart continued to compete for another four years, the 1952 Olympic bronze medal marked the peak of her career.
Stewart married Lincoln Hurring and they settled in Auckland and remained heavily involved in swimming.
Their son, Gary, won a Commonwealth Games gold medal and a world championship silver medal.
Boxing: Champs over for Otago five
Boxing
Cherine Henry Two remaining Otago boxers have been eliminated from the New Zealand championships in Lower Hutt.
South Island Golden Gloves female featherweight champion Cherine Henry lost her first-round fight against Chrisell Small of Feilding on Thursday.
Henry was fighting in the bantamweight division. She was beaten on a points decision, 17-9.
Otago Boxing Association president Colin Falloon said Henry did her best.
He said she had an unusual style and perhaps the judges did not think her punches were hard enough.
Falloon said while Henry was disappointed to lose, she would learn a lot from this experience.
Bridget Morton, fighting in the flyweight division, came up against a formidable opponent in former national champion Lloyds Scully, from Canterbury.
Morton was no match for the experienced Scully, who had fought overseas on many occasions. She was beaten on a points decision, 22-9.
Falloon said Morton showed a ton of courage in her fight and never gave in.
He said while it was disappointing to see all five Otago boxers eliminated in the first round, their spirits were still high.
"Sure we are disappointed but the experience we have gained will be invaluable."
Falloon said the boxers had to be exposed at this level so they could see what they needed to work on.
He said the contribution manager Billy Eckhold and his wife had made towards the team was immeasurable
The Otago team will remain in Lower Hutt for today's finals and will return to Dunedin tomorrow.
Cherine Henry Two remaining Otago boxers have been eliminated from the New Zealand championships in Lower Hutt.
South Island Golden Gloves female featherweight champion Cherine Henry lost her first-round fight against Chrisell Small of Feilding on Thursday.
Henry was fighting in the bantamweight division. She was beaten on a points decision, 17-9.
Otago Boxing Association president Colin Falloon said Henry did her best.
He said she had an unusual style and perhaps the judges did not think her punches were hard enough.
Falloon said while Henry was disappointed to lose, she would learn a lot from this experience.
Bridget Morton, fighting in the flyweight division, came up against a formidable opponent in former national champion Lloyds Scully, from Canterbury.
Morton was no match for the experienced Scully, who had fought overseas on many occasions. She was beaten on a points decision, 22-9.
Falloon said Morton showed a ton of courage in her fight and never gave in.
He said while it was disappointing to see all five Otago boxers eliminated in the first round, their spirits were still high.
"Sure we are disappointed but the experience we have gained will be invaluable."
Falloon said the boxers had to be exposed at this level so they could see what they needed to work on.
He said the contribution manager Billy Eckhold and his wife had made towards the team was immeasurable
The Otago team will remain in Lower Hutt for today's finals and will return to Dunedin tomorrow.
shoot putting champion
Updated 30 August 2010
Valerie ADAMS (previously VILI), New Zealand (Shot Put)
Born 6 October 1984
Coached by Didier Poppe
Valerie Adams had a reluctant start in athletics. Being a shy young woman, who was continually picked upon for her height at school, she did not want to draw attention to herself. But, at the age of 14, she was virtually forced to participate by her Physical Education teacher and she broke a regional schools competition shot put record which had stood for 20 years.
In 1998, Adams was introduced to Kirsten Hellier, and together they embarked upon an immensely successful partnership. Hellier quickly realised that the very characteristics that had marked Adams for taunts and mocking (her height and size) were the foundations for success in her chosen event.
Adams was selected for her first representative team to the 1999 World Youth Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and finished 10th with a best throw of 12.82m in the final.
Her mother passed away from cancer in September 2000, just after the opening of the Sydney Olympics, and Adams privately vowed to prove herself on the Olympic stage to honour her memory. Those nearest to Adams suggest that this was a turning point in her life as she became more determined to achieve success. Adams turned to Hellier for emotional support, and the coach/athlete relationship became a tighter bond. Adams also moved into the house shared by Hellier and her husband.
In 2001 Adams won gold in the World Youth Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, with a throw of 16.87m. In 2002, she won gold at the World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica, with a throw of 17.73m, almost a metre further than the second-placed competitor. This led to her first senior competition, the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. The 17-year-old surprised many back home in New Zealand with a silver medal, throwing 17.45m, only 8cm away from the gold.
A creditable fifth place at her first World Championships, in Paris, in 2003, gave her additional motivation to succeed and valuable experience in the lead-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics. However, she was unable to honour the promise she had made to her mother’s memory. Adams was rushed to hospital with appendicitis the week before she was due to leave New Zealand. Unfortunately, during the surgery, there were further complications which put her participation at the Athens Olympics in doubt. However, the highly motivated Adams made it to Athens, but finished a disappointing ninth (later improved to eighth after the Russian gold medallist, Irina Korzhanenko, was disqualified after failing a drugs test).
On her return home, Adams became engaged to, and subsequently married, Bertrand Vili, a New Caledonian discus thrower.
In 2005, Valerie Vili picked up a bronze medal at the World Championships, in Helsinki, and, the following year, at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, she won the gold medal with a Commonwealth Games record (19.66m).
Vili has improved her PB every year since 1999, and first broke through 20 metres at the New Zealand national championships in January 2006. Her throw of 20.20m was a New Zealand and Oceania Area record.
She suffered her first defeat of 2006 at the World Athletics Final, in Stuttgart, in September, when she was beaten by Natallia Mikhnevich (née Khoroneko) of Belarus (19.81m to 19.64m). However, it was not all bad as she had the satisfaction of defeating both the 2004 Olympic champion Yumileidi Cumbá, and the 2005 World champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk. Vili won the final meeting of the season, the World Cup, held in Athens, with a throw of 19.87m.
2006 ended for Vili with recuperation after an operation to her shoulder. This recuperation and rehabilitation kept her out of competition for most of the New Zealand 2006-07 summer season. She returned to competition to win at the IAAF permit meeting in Christchurch (18.32m), and the national championships (18.84m), before embarking on her quest for World Championship glory.
The 2007 World Championships, in Osaka, were a hugely satisfying competition for Vili. She bettered her New Zealand and Oceania record with a last-round throw of 20.54m. This throw was dedicated to her father who had passed away only a few months earlier. It also secured the gold medal for Vili, although she had to endure a nervous wait whilst defending champion Ostapchuk made one final attempt, which fell short. Vili joined a select group of athletes who have won titles at World Youth, World Junior and now World senior level.
Vili couldn’t repeat her World Championships triumph in Stuttgart at the World Athletics Final (the last international competition of the 2007 calendar) finishing 2nd behind her close rival Ostapchuk, 20.45m to 20.40m.
She has continued to throw consistently throughout the New Zealand summer season, recording victories in 19.24m (John Walker Night - Auckland), 19.72m (Canberra, AUS A-series), 19.66m (Porritt Classic – Hamilton), and 19.78m (Sydney, AUS – A-Series).
She recorded 20.13m to win the IAAF Permit Meeting in Auckland on 19 February 2008. This was a special night for Vili as she was also crowned New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year (for the second year running) and the overall Sportsperson of the Year at the Halberg Awards.
Vili’s last performance before flying to Valencia for the World Indoor Championships was in Brisbane on 28 February, winning the Australian title (19.54m). Her only previous appearance at the World Indoor Championships was in Budapest in 2004, where she was 5th in her qualifying pool and did not make the final.
However, in Valencia it was a totally different result. Vili won convincingly with 20.19m while her rival Ostapchuk could not break the 20m barrier.
Vili had been content to get back into base training before the Olympics. However, she did accept an invitation to compete in the Beijing Olympic stadium nicknamed “The Bird’s Nest” in May. She won easily with 19.41m but believed that the experience of being at the Olympic stadium was invaluable in the lead-up to the Games.
Valerie rounded out her Olympic preparations with a win (20.08m) in Townsville, Australia, where she has been at a warm weather training camp. The same weekend her rival Ostapchuk threw a world leading put of 20.86m. Vili says “I’ll be out there giving it my best and I know my competitors will be doing the same.”
Back in Beijing for the Games, a fired-up Vili stamped her mark on the Olympic final from the very first throw. “I was determined to show all my competitors that I meant business... I was there to win!” Her first throw was out to 20.56m, a new personal best, and was never headed. Arch-rival Ostapchuk was one who did not (or could not) respond to the presence and domination of Vili, only finishing third, well off her best.
Vili competed in Europe after the Olympics and finished off an amazing season with a win in the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
Vili started 2009 in a position new to her – that of title defender. This has however not changed her attitude. “I have put in the hard work, and I am there to win”.
The New Zealand Federation brought Ostapchuk to Waitakere in February 2009 to provide Vili with some serious international competition in her home country for the first time. Vili did not show any preferential treatment, given that Ostapchuk had travelled 36 hours to reach New Zealand. In pouring rain Vili defeated Ostapchuk 20.25m to 19.11m.
After another pleasing training block, Vili accepted an invitation to test herself in the South American Grand Prix series in Brazil. She returned home having beaten a number of good Cuban throwers, and another top Belarusian (the silver medallist from the Beijing Olympics Natallia Mikhnevich) and with another New Zealand and Oceania record (20.69m from Rio de Janeiro).
Vili showed she was in no mood to be trifled with in Berlin. Her first throw of the qualifying competition (19.70m) easily passed the 18.50m automatic qualifying mark for the final, and was the longest throw recorded. In the final, hometown favourite Nadine Kleinert started strongly with a personal best of 20.20m, and Vili’s opening throw of 19.40m only left her in 4th place. It wasn’t until the 3rd round of the competition that Vili took the lead with 20.25m, which she subsequently improved to 20.44m to seal the victory.
Vili continued her good form in two meetings post Berlin with 20.45m in Thum and 20.41m in Bad Köstritz, before contesting the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece. She dominated the competition recording a new New Zealand and Oceania record of 21.07m, winning the competition by more than 1m. “My personal goal this year was to break 21m and I’m so pleased to have achieved it here,” she declared.
On returning home to New Zealand, Vili has been the subject of many honours. She was voted as New Zealand’s Sportswoman of the Year and overall Sportsperson of the Year for the third year running, a remarkable feat.
Vili started 2010 with a strong performance at the Porritt Classic in Hamilton where she broke her New Zealand resident record of 20.20m with 20.25m. She then readied herself for the World Indoor Championships by competing in the Sydney Track Classic where she improved on her first outing of the season by recording 20.57m.
Vili’s three year unbeaten streak (28 finals from 19 December 2007 to 4 March 2010) was broken at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, with a narrow loss to Ostapchuk. Although Vili set an Area record with 20.49, Ostapchuk upped it with a Championships record 20.85 in the last round.
Upon her return to New Zealand, Vili announced that she would split with her coach of 11 years, Kirsten Hellier. At a press conference Vili choked back tears when making the announcement saying “Kirsten has been so much more than just a coach, she has been an amazing mentor and friend as well. It’s time for me to get some new input into my training”.
After a long period of consultation and reflection, Didier Poppe, the very experienced French field event coach, agreed to become Vili’s new coach. Vili has also recently returned to using her maiden name Adams. With any new partnership there is a settling in period. Aspects of Valerie Adams’ technique have been worked upon, and her results during her first Diamond League season, whilst still consistently over 19.50m, have yet to reach the heights of the previous three years, along with several defeats at the hands of Ostapchuk.
Personal Best
21.07m
Yearly Progression
1999 - 14.15; 2000 - 15.72; 2001 - 17.08; 2002 - 18.40; 2003 - 18.93 (AJR); 2004 - 19.29; 2005 - 19.87 (AR); 2006 - 20.20 (AR); 2007- 20.54 (AR), 2008 -20.56 (AR), 2009 – 21.07 (AR), 2010 – 20.57
Career Highlights
1999 10th World Youth Championships, Bydgoszcz
2001 1st World Youth Championships, Debrecen
2002 6th World Cup, Madrid
2002 2nd Commonwealth Games, Manchester
2002 1st World Junior Championships, Kingston
2003 5th World Championships, Paris
2004 8th Olympic Games, Athens
2005 3rd World Championships, Helsinki
2005 2nd World Athletics Final, Monaco
2006 1st Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
2006 2nd World Athletics Final, Stuttgart
2006 1st World Cup, Athens
2007 - 1st World Championships, Osaka
2007 2nd World Athletics Final, Stuttgart
2008 1st World Indoor Championships Valencia
2008 1st Olympic Games, Beijing
2008 1st World Athletics Final, Stuttgart
2009 1st World Championships Berlin
2009 1st World Athletics Final, Thessaloniki
2010 2nd World Indoor Championships, Doha
Prepared by Murray Taylor for the IAAF ‘Focus on Athletes’ project. Copyright IAAF 2006-2010.
Valerie ADAMS (previously VILI), New Zealand (Shot Put)
Born 6 October 1984
Coached by Didier Poppe
Valerie Adams had a reluctant start in athletics. Being a shy young woman, who was continually picked upon for her height at school, she did not want to draw attention to herself. But, at the age of 14, she was virtually forced to participate by her Physical Education teacher and she broke a regional schools competition shot put record which had stood for 20 years.
In 1998, Adams was introduced to Kirsten Hellier, and together they embarked upon an immensely successful partnership. Hellier quickly realised that the very characteristics that had marked Adams for taunts and mocking (her height and size) were the foundations for success in her chosen event.
Adams was selected for her first representative team to the 1999 World Youth Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and finished 10th with a best throw of 12.82m in the final.
Her mother passed away from cancer in September 2000, just after the opening of the Sydney Olympics, and Adams privately vowed to prove herself on the Olympic stage to honour her memory. Those nearest to Adams suggest that this was a turning point in her life as she became more determined to achieve success. Adams turned to Hellier for emotional support, and the coach/athlete relationship became a tighter bond. Adams also moved into the house shared by Hellier and her husband.
In 2001 Adams won gold in the World Youth Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, with a throw of 16.87m. In 2002, she won gold at the World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica, with a throw of 17.73m, almost a metre further than the second-placed competitor. This led to her first senior competition, the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. The 17-year-old surprised many back home in New Zealand with a silver medal, throwing 17.45m, only 8cm away from the gold.
A creditable fifth place at her first World Championships, in Paris, in 2003, gave her additional motivation to succeed and valuable experience in the lead-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics. However, she was unable to honour the promise she had made to her mother’s memory. Adams was rushed to hospital with appendicitis the week before she was due to leave New Zealand. Unfortunately, during the surgery, there were further complications which put her participation at the Athens Olympics in doubt. However, the highly motivated Adams made it to Athens, but finished a disappointing ninth (later improved to eighth after the Russian gold medallist, Irina Korzhanenko, was disqualified after failing a drugs test).
On her return home, Adams became engaged to, and subsequently married, Bertrand Vili, a New Caledonian discus thrower.
In 2005, Valerie Vili picked up a bronze medal at the World Championships, in Helsinki, and, the following year, at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games, she won the gold medal with a Commonwealth Games record (19.66m).
Vili has improved her PB every year since 1999, and first broke through 20 metres at the New Zealand national championships in January 2006. Her throw of 20.20m was a New Zealand and Oceania Area record.
She suffered her first defeat of 2006 at the World Athletics Final, in Stuttgart, in September, when she was beaten by Natallia Mikhnevich (née Khoroneko) of Belarus (19.81m to 19.64m). However, it was not all bad as she had the satisfaction of defeating both the 2004 Olympic champion Yumileidi Cumbá, and the 2005 World champion Nadzeya Ostapchuk. Vili won the final meeting of the season, the World Cup, held in Athens, with a throw of 19.87m.
2006 ended for Vili with recuperation after an operation to her shoulder. This recuperation and rehabilitation kept her out of competition for most of the New Zealand 2006-07 summer season. She returned to competition to win at the IAAF permit meeting in Christchurch (18.32m), and the national championships (18.84m), before embarking on her quest for World Championship glory.
The 2007 World Championships, in Osaka, were a hugely satisfying competition for Vili. She bettered her New Zealand and Oceania record with a last-round throw of 20.54m. This throw was dedicated to her father who had passed away only a few months earlier. It also secured the gold medal for Vili, although she had to endure a nervous wait whilst defending champion Ostapchuk made one final attempt, which fell short. Vili joined a select group of athletes who have won titles at World Youth, World Junior and now World senior level.
Vili couldn’t repeat her World Championships triumph in Stuttgart at the World Athletics Final (the last international competition of the 2007 calendar) finishing 2nd behind her close rival Ostapchuk, 20.45m to 20.40m.
She has continued to throw consistently throughout the New Zealand summer season, recording victories in 19.24m (John Walker Night - Auckland), 19.72m (Canberra, AUS A-series), 19.66m (Porritt Classic – Hamilton), and 19.78m (Sydney, AUS – A-Series).
She recorded 20.13m to win the IAAF Permit Meeting in Auckland on 19 February 2008. This was a special night for Vili as she was also crowned New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year (for the second year running) and the overall Sportsperson of the Year at the Halberg Awards.
Vili’s last performance before flying to Valencia for the World Indoor Championships was in Brisbane on 28 February, winning the Australian title (19.54m). Her only previous appearance at the World Indoor Championships was in Budapest in 2004, where she was 5th in her qualifying pool and did not make the final.
However, in Valencia it was a totally different result. Vili won convincingly with 20.19m while her rival Ostapchuk could not break the 20m barrier.
Vili had been content to get back into base training before the Olympics. However, she did accept an invitation to compete in the Beijing Olympic stadium nicknamed “The Bird’s Nest” in May. She won easily with 19.41m but believed that the experience of being at the Olympic stadium was invaluable in the lead-up to the Games.
Valerie rounded out her Olympic preparations with a win (20.08m) in Townsville, Australia, where she has been at a warm weather training camp. The same weekend her rival Ostapchuk threw a world leading put of 20.86m. Vili says “I’ll be out there giving it my best and I know my competitors will be doing the same.”
Back in Beijing for the Games, a fired-up Vili stamped her mark on the Olympic final from the very first throw. “I was determined to show all my competitors that I meant business... I was there to win!” Her first throw was out to 20.56m, a new personal best, and was never headed. Arch-rival Ostapchuk was one who did not (or could not) respond to the presence and domination of Vili, only finishing third, well off her best.
Vili competed in Europe after the Olympics and finished off an amazing season with a win in the World Athletics Final in Stuttgart.
Vili started 2009 in a position new to her – that of title defender. This has however not changed her attitude. “I have put in the hard work, and I am there to win”.
The New Zealand Federation brought Ostapchuk to Waitakere in February 2009 to provide Vili with some serious international competition in her home country for the first time. Vili did not show any preferential treatment, given that Ostapchuk had travelled 36 hours to reach New Zealand. In pouring rain Vili defeated Ostapchuk 20.25m to 19.11m.
After another pleasing training block, Vili accepted an invitation to test herself in the South American Grand Prix series in Brazil. She returned home having beaten a number of good Cuban throwers, and another top Belarusian (the silver medallist from the Beijing Olympics Natallia Mikhnevich) and with another New Zealand and Oceania record (20.69m from Rio de Janeiro).
Vili showed she was in no mood to be trifled with in Berlin. Her first throw of the qualifying competition (19.70m) easily passed the 18.50m automatic qualifying mark for the final, and was the longest throw recorded. In the final, hometown favourite Nadine Kleinert started strongly with a personal best of 20.20m, and Vili’s opening throw of 19.40m only left her in 4th place. It wasn’t until the 3rd round of the competition that Vili took the lead with 20.25m, which she subsequently improved to 20.44m to seal the victory.
Vili continued her good form in two meetings post Berlin with 20.45m in Thum and 20.41m in Bad Köstritz, before contesting the World Athletics Final in Thessaloniki, Greece. She dominated the competition recording a new New Zealand and Oceania record of 21.07m, winning the competition by more than 1m. “My personal goal this year was to break 21m and I’m so pleased to have achieved it here,” she declared.
On returning home to New Zealand, Vili has been the subject of many honours. She was voted as New Zealand’s Sportswoman of the Year and overall Sportsperson of the Year for the third year running, a remarkable feat.
Vili started 2010 with a strong performance at the Porritt Classic in Hamilton where she broke her New Zealand resident record of 20.20m with 20.25m. She then readied herself for the World Indoor Championships by competing in the Sydney Track Classic where she improved on her first outing of the season by recording 20.57m.
Vili’s three year unbeaten streak (28 finals from 19 December 2007 to 4 March 2010) was broken at the World Indoor Championships in Doha, with a narrow loss to Ostapchuk. Although Vili set an Area record with 20.49, Ostapchuk upped it with a Championships record 20.85 in the last round.
Upon her return to New Zealand, Vili announced that she would split with her coach of 11 years, Kirsten Hellier. At a press conference Vili choked back tears when making the announcement saying “Kirsten has been so much more than just a coach, she has been an amazing mentor and friend as well. It’s time for me to get some new input into my training”.
After a long period of consultation and reflection, Didier Poppe, the very experienced French field event coach, agreed to become Vili’s new coach. Vili has also recently returned to using her maiden name Adams. With any new partnership there is a settling in period. Aspects of Valerie Adams’ technique have been worked upon, and her results during her first Diamond League season, whilst still consistently over 19.50m, have yet to reach the heights of the previous three years, along with several defeats at the hands of Ostapchuk.
Personal Best
21.07m
Yearly Progression
1999 - 14.15; 2000 - 15.72; 2001 - 17.08; 2002 - 18.40; 2003 - 18.93 (AJR); 2004 - 19.29; 2005 - 19.87 (AR); 2006 - 20.20 (AR); 2007- 20.54 (AR), 2008 -20.56 (AR), 2009 – 21.07 (AR), 2010 – 20.57
Career Highlights
1999 10th World Youth Championships, Bydgoszcz
2001 1st World Youth Championships, Debrecen
2002 6th World Cup, Madrid
2002 2nd Commonwealth Games, Manchester
2002 1st World Junior Championships, Kingston
2003 5th World Championships, Paris
2004 8th Olympic Games, Athens
2005 3rd World Championships, Helsinki
2005 2nd World Athletics Final, Monaco
2006 1st Commonwealth Games, Melbourne
2006 2nd World Athletics Final, Stuttgart
2006 1st World Cup, Athens
2007 - 1st World Championships, Osaka
2007 2nd World Athletics Final, Stuttgart
2008 1st World Indoor Championships Valencia
2008 1st Olympic Games, Beijing
2008 1st World Athletics Final, Stuttgart
2009 1st World Championships Berlin
2009 1st World Athletics Final, Thessaloniki
2010 2nd World Indoor Championships, Doha
Prepared by Murray Taylor for the IAAF ‘Focus on Athletes’ project. Copyright IAAF 2006-2010.
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By: David Robson
Mar 18, 2011
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To be held at the Excel Center on March 19th and 20th, 2011, the IFBB British Pro Grand Prix and Fitness Expo weekend promises to be one of the most exciting events of the 2011 fitness and sporting calendar.
With MMA, fitness modeling, extreme sports, arm wrestling and grappling, strongman competition, and a world first, the IFBB Mr. Olympia Amateur Bodybuilding Championship and IFBB International Cup, this event is expected to attract fans of many codes and stripes, but all with one common goal: to enjoy a total entertainment experience and to see the world's best strength, bodybuilding, extreme sports and fitness athletes strut their stuff.
And as its full title suggests, the 2011 British Pro Grand Prix will, in both men's open and 202 pound classes, host some of the best professional bodybuilders to sport 20-inch guns, 30-inch quads and skin of a shrink-wrapped consistency.
Twenty six of the IFBB's best, featuring many new faces eager to earn their place in the pro game's pantheon of champions will make the stage creak and groan under their collective weight as each competes with one all encompassing objective in mind: to win a fair percentage of the combined $70,000 prize money on offer as well as a place in the most prestigious contest of them all, the 2011 IFBB Mr. Olympia.
With ten athletes from the UK including established stars James "Flex" Lewis and John Hodgson slated to throw down with athletes from as far afield as Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Lithuania, France, Macedonia, Spain, South Africa and, of course, the US of A, the men's open and 202-pound pro bodybuilding events will have a truly international flavor.
Given the inclusion of relative unknowns such as Dainius Barzinskas (Lithuania), Hennie Kotze (South Africa) and Cvetko Stojmenovski (Germany)--try pronouncing either of these names with a mouthful of chicken and rice--it will of interest to see who of them will emerge as potential pro threats while more seasoned athletes such as Ronny Rockel, Toney Freeman, Roelly Winklaar and Arnold Classic champ Branch Warren look to dominate the field.
Questions one might ask on the eve of what promises to be two phenomenally contested bodybuilding showdowns are: Who will walk away as a formerly unknown, but new breakout champion for 2011, and who of the current roster of elite top tier competitors (Warren and Rockel being two) will reign supreme? Below is my assessment of how the open men's top six placements will unfold:
Open Men's
Sixth place: Essa Obiad
Making a tremendous splash at the 2010 Europa SuperShow, his first pro event which he won in convincing fashion, UAE athlete Essa Ibrahim Hassan Obiad has justifiably been touted as the next big pro bodybuilding star.
Though not living up to the expectations of many at this year's Arnold Classic--where despite being excellently balanced and in shredded shape he landed in 12th--the man has top tier potential written all over his densely muscular frame. With a little more fine-tuning and pro level experience under his belt he will certainly be in the running for major professional success.
First up he will want to redeem himself at the 2011 British Pro Grand Prix championships. If he can hit his mark as he did in 2010 he will easily make the top six and may even place as high as third.
View Essa Obiad's Contest History Here.
Fifth Place: Toney Freeman
After a disappointing start to 2011--with his ninth place Arnold Classic finish--big Toney Freeman will be out to improve his professional record at the upcoming British Pro show. With all the pro bodybuilding potential in the world, Freeman has yet to win a major bodybuilding title.
Being as talented as he is yet never securing a major competition win must be frustrating for Toney, who has reigned supreme in six smaller pro shows to date. Yet it is his conditioning that is the wildcard; he either nails it convincingly or comes in slightly soft.
When he nails it he is difficult to beat; when he is soft he gets lost in a stew of shredded beef. One suspects he will be putting it all on the line at this year's British Pro Grand Prix. If he does, the other athletes had better be at the top of their respective games.
View Toney Freeman's Contest History Here.
Fourth Place: Johnnie Jackson
In placing an impressive second to Dennis Wolf at last weekend's Australian Pro Grand Prix, and a career best seventh at the Arnold Classic a week before the Aussie show, to say veteran pro Johnnie Jackson is on roll would be an understatement. His powerful physique brought about through years of power bodybuilding is always a highlight of any pro show he enters.
His side chest shot and anything he hits from the back is spectacular. If he can hold his Australian Pro conditioning, he should again be respectably placed. His predicted fourth placement here is given on the assumption that Roelly Winklaar--who placed one spot behind him at the 2011 Arnold--improves his conditioning of two weeks ago.
Roelly, who is better balanced and more muscular overall, has greater pro potential compared to Jackson. But there is much to be said about experience gained through many years at the pro bodybuilding coalface, and it is such sustained practice that will give Jackson an edge over most of his pro competition.
View Johnnie Jackson's Contest History Here.
Third Place: Roelly Winklaar
In placing ninth at the Arnold, Winklaar defied predictions that he may finish as high as top three. Yet he is still considered one of the sport's best and will be out to prove this belief.
At a mere 5'6" Roelly weighs an average of 230 pounds ripped and looks much larger. A true freak, he also has the lines and shape to compliment mountainous size. With one of the best V tapers around and some of the most impressive upper-to-lower-body balance in the pro ranks today, he is sure to achieve his athletic potential very soon. And this is not good news for his competition.
View Roelly Winklaar's Contest History Here.
Second Place: Ronny Rockel
It is widely known that success begets success, and Ronny Rockel is another man whose momentum has propelled him on to further physical improvements. In 2010 he proved that his time in pro bodybuilding is far from over, despite being in the game since 2003.
With his 2010 improvements--a little more muscle and better conditioning overall--many felt that we and finally seen him exhaust his potential. Wrong assumption. As 2011 unfolds Ronny has not only built on his ability to peak, he has unveiled a five pound gain in pure muscle mass, which has increased his chances of success against the more massive competitors.
With his sixth place finish at the recent Arnold Classic, Rockel is, based on the current field, the likely contender for second at the British Pro Grand Prix.
View Ronny Rockel's Contest History Here.
First place: Branch Warren
After many years' aiming for the top, professional bodybuilding's most hardcore athlete, Branch Warren, finally won the Arnold Classic in 2011. Following his first pro win at the 2005 Europa SuperShow, Warren has added a string of pro victories to his ever-growing resume.
Now he is aiming for further success with a first-place finish at the 2011 British Pro Grand Prix. With his status as frontrunner for any professional bodybuilding show he enters firmly secured, there is little chance that anyone from this year's British Pro field will beat him. Having the mass, conditioning and, now, balance departments well and truly covered, Warren has found a winning formula that will make him hard to beat in any pro show.
Although Rockel might have him on balance and Winklaar might have better lines and bigger arms, Branch has a well-rounded package that is heavily in line with the mass requirements of modern day pro bodybuilding. Winning the British Pro will be the next logical step in his quest to win the coveted Mr. Olympia title.
View Branch Warren's Contest History Here.
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Twenty-six top pros, including many new faces eager to earn their place in the pro game’s pantheon of champions, will make the stage creak and groan under their collective weight. Will it hold? And who will win?
By: David Robson
Mar 18, 2011
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To be held at the Excel Center on March 19th and 20th, 2011, the IFBB British Pro Grand Prix and Fitness Expo weekend promises to be one of the most exciting events of the 2011 fitness and sporting calendar.
With MMA, fitness modeling, extreme sports, arm wrestling and grappling, strongman competition, and a world first, the IFBB Mr. Olympia Amateur Bodybuilding Championship and IFBB International Cup, this event is expected to attract fans of many codes and stripes, but all with one common goal: to enjoy a total entertainment experience and to see the world's best strength, bodybuilding, extreme sports and fitness athletes strut their stuff.
And as its full title suggests, the 2011 British Pro Grand Prix will, in both men's open and 202 pound classes, host some of the best professional bodybuilders to sport 20-inch guns, 30-inch quads and skin of a shrink-wrapped consistency.
Twenty six of the IFBB's best, featuring many new faces eager to earn their place in the pro game's pantheon of champions will make the stage creak and groan under their collective weight as each competes with one all encompassing objective in mind: to win a fair percentage of the combined $70,000 prize money on offer as well as a place in the most prestigious contest of them all, the 2011 IFBB Mr. Olympia.
With ten athletes from the UK including established stars James "Flex" Lewis and John Hodgson slated to throw down with athletes from as far afield as Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Lithuania, France, Macedonia, Spain, South Africa and, of course, the US of A, the men's open and 202-pound pro bodybuilding events will have a truly international flavor.
Given the inclusion of relative unknowns such as Dainius Barzinskas (Lithuania), Hennie Kotze (South Africa) and Cvetko Stojmenovski (Germany)--try pronouncing either of these names with a mouthful of chicken and rice--it will of interest to see who of them will emerge as potential pro threats while more seasoned athletes such as Ronny Rockel, Toney Freeman, Roelly Winklaar and Arnold Classic champ Branch Warren look to dominate the field.
Questions one might ask on the eve of what promises to be two phenomenally contested bodybuilding showdowns are: Who will walk away as a formerly unknown, but new breakout champion for 2011, and who of the current roster of elite top tier competitors (Warren and Rockel being two) will reign supreme? Below is my assessment of how the open men's top six placements will unfold:
Open Men's
Sixth place: Essa Obiad
Making a tremendous splash at the 2010 Europa SuperShow, his first pro event which he won in convincing fashion, UAE athlete Essa Ibrahim Hassan Obiad has justifiably been touted as the next big pro bodybuilding star.
Though not living up to the expectations of many at this year's Arnold Classic--where despite being excellently balanced and in shredded shape he landed in 12th--the man has top tier potential written all over his densely muscular frame. With a little more fine-tuning and pro level experience under his belt he will certainly be in the running for major professional success.
First up he will want to redeem himself at the 2011 British Pro Grand Prix championships. If he can hit his mark as he did in 2010 he will easily make the top six and may even place as high as third.
View Essa Obiad's Contest History Here.
Fifth Place: Toney Freeman
After a disappointing start to 2011--with his ninth place Arnold Classic finish--big Toney Freeman will be out to improve his professional record at the upcoming British Pro show. With all the pro bodybuilding potential in the world, Freeman has yet to win a major bodybuilding title.
Being as talented as he is yet never securing a major competition win must be frustrating for Toney, who has reigned supreme in six smaller pro shows to date. Yet it is his conditioning that is the wildcard; he either nails it convincingly or comes in slightly soft.
When he nails it he is difficult to beat; when he is soft he gets lost in a stew of shredded beef. One suspects he will be putting it all on the line at this year's British Pro Grand Prix. If he does, the other athletes had better be at the top of their respective games.
View Toney Freeman's Contest History Here.
Fourth Place: Johnnie Jackson
In placing an impressive second to Dennis Wolf at last weekend's Australian Pro Grand Prix, and a career best seventh at the Arnold Classic a week before the Aussie show, to say veteran pro Johnnie Jackson is on roll would be an understatement. His powerful physique brought about through years of power bodybuilding is always a highlight of any pro show he enters.
His side chest shot and anything he hits from the back is spectacular. If he can hold his Australian Pro conditioning, he should again be respectably placed. His predicted fourth placement here is given on the assumption that Roelly Winklaar--who placed one spot behind him at the 2011 Arnold--improves his conditioning of two weeks ago.
Roelly, who is better balanced and more muscular overall, has greater pro potential compared to Jackson. But there is much to be said about experience gained through many years at the pro bodybuilding coalface, and it is such sustained practice that will give Jackson an edge over most of his pro competition.
View Johnnie Jackson's Contest History Here.
Third Place: Roelly Winklaar
In placing ninth at the Arnold, Winklaar defied predictions that he may finish as high as top three. Yet he is still considered one of the sport's best and will be out to prove this belief.
At a mere 5'6" Roelly weighs an average of 230 pounds ripped and looks much larger. A true freak, he also has the lines and shape to compliment mountainous size. With one of the best V tapers around and some of the most impressive upper-to-lower-body balance in the pro ranks today, he is sure to achieve his athletic potential very soon. And this is not good news for his competition.
View Roelly Winklaar's Contest History Here.
Second Place: Ronny Rockel
It is widely known that success begets success, and Ronny Rockel is another man whose momentum has propelled him on to further physical improvements. In 2010 he proved that his time in pro bodybuilding is far from over, despite being in the game since 2003.
With his 2010 improvements--a little more muscle and better conditioning overall--many felt that we and finally seen him exhaust his potential. Wrong assumption. As 2011 unfolds Ronny has not only built on his ability to peak, he has unveiled a five pound gain in pure muscle mass, which has increased his chances of success against the more massive competitors.
With his sixth place finish at the recent Arnold Classic, Rockel is, based on the current field, the likely contender for second at the British Pro Grand Prix.
View Ronny Rockel's Contest History Here.
First place: Branch Warren
After many years' aiming for the top, professional bodybuilding's most hardcore athlete, Branch Warren, finally won the Arnold Classic in 2011. Following his first pro win at the 2005 Europa SuperShow, Warren has added a string of pro victories to his ever-growing resume.
Now he is aiming for further success with a first-place finish at the 2011 British Pro Grand Prix. With his status as frontrunner for any professional bodybuilding show he enters firmly secured, there is little chance that anyone from this year's British Pro field will beat him. Having the mass, conditioning and, now, balance departments well and truly covered, Warren has found a winning formula that will make him hard to beat in any pro show.
Although Rockel might have him on balance and Winklaar might have better lines and bigger arms, Branch has a well-rounded package that is heavily in line with the mass requirements of modern day pro bodybuilding. Winning the British Pro will be the next logical step in his quest to win the coveted Mr. Olympia title.
View Branch Warren's Contest History Here.
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Commonwealth Valerie Adams has a simple answer when asked what more she wants to achieve in her shot-putting career.
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Commonwealth Games: Adams just wants to throw further
New Zealand's Valerie Adams poses with her gold medal. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
The gold is the second for New Zealand in New Delhi, after track cyclist Alison Shanks' victory in the 3000m individual pursuit yesterday.
It is Adams' third Commonwealth medal.
The first was a silver in Manchester in 2002 as a 17-year-old, and the Aucklander has also added the world and Olympic titles to her resume since then.
The 12-strong field that assembled at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium might not have been the strongest that Adams has come up against, but that didn't diminish her delight at her win.
"Every time you put the bib on in competition, it's a matter of doing what you have to do," she said.
"People just expect you to win, so to come out here and defend my title and defend it with a very big throw, I'm bloody happy."
Adams, who turned 26 on Wednesday, was the raging hot favourite heading into the event, being the only competitor to have gone over 20m.
Her best of the night came with her very first effort, which was greeted with a roar from the crowd.
She reacted with a jump for joy and there was another little celebration when she managed 20.39m on her second throw.
Adams came close to her opening effort on her last two attempts, which measured 20.44m and 20.41m.
All six of her throws surpassed 20m, eclipsing her own Games record of 19.66m that she set in Melbourne four years ago.
Silver went to Cleopatra Brown of Trinidad and Tobago with 19.03m, while Samoa's Tasele Satupai took bronze with a personal best of 16.43m
Adams was short of her own personal best of 21.07m, achieved in winning the world athletics final in Greece last year, but her consistency was a feature of her latest victory.
"I'm stoked with my consistency throughout the series," she said.
"It's the end of the season, I'm tired, breaking the Commonwealth record -- I cannot ask for much more really."
Adams has been working on technical changes with new coach Didier Poppe since parting ways with long-time mentor Kirsten Hellier earlier this year.
She said she was seeing the benefits of those changes.
"Things take time," she said.
"It's a matter of just keeping going until we get there."
In other New Zealand athletics action tonight, Monique Williams claimed a place in the 200m semifinals after clocking the third-fastest time of the heats with 23.61 seconds
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