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Adams is one of only seven athletes (along with ], ], ], ], ], and ]) to win world championships at the ], ], and senior level of an athletic event. |
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Adams is one of only seven athletes (along with ], ], ], ], ], and ]) to win world championships at the ], ], and senior level of an athletic event. |
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==Career== |
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In 1998 Adams first met former ]er ], who would become her coach for the next 11 years. |
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Adams first came to prominence when winning the ] in 2001, with a throw of 16.87 m. She followed this up in 2002 by becoming ] champion, throwing 17.73 m, and had her first taste of senior success winning a ] at the ] with 17.45 m. |
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She finished fifth at the ] at eighteen years of age. At her first ], Adams finished ], while still recovering from an ] she had just weeks before the competition. |
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The following year, Adams earned a place in the international elite, winning a ] at the ] with a personal best throw of 19.87 m, and going on to finish second at the ]. At the ] the 1.96 m-tall athlete won the ], breaking the 20-year-old Commonwealth Games record of 19.00 m with a throw of 19.66 m. |
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In 2007, Adams went to the ] ] as a favourite to take a medal due to her being one of only three women to throw over 20 m before the championships. In qualifying, Adams led the field with a throw of 19.45 m. Adams held second place behind ] throughout the final, but responded well in the last round with a mammoth throw and Commonwealth record of 20.54 m to take the gold. This made Adams one of few female athletes ever to take IAAF World Titles at youth, junior and senior level.<ref> She was the third after ] (2003) and ] (2005). ] completed the set the day after Adams.</ref> |
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In 2008 Adams broke the Oceania record in winning her first ] in ] (20.19 m). At the ], she qualified for the final with the longest distance thrown, 19.73 meters, on her first attempt. She won the gold with a throw of 20.56 m, a personal best, beating ]sian thrower ]. It is the first Olympic gold medal in ] for New Zealand since ] won the 1,500 meter race in ]. She also won the New Zealand Sports Award of the year in 2008. |
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At the 2009 Grande Prêmio Rio in Brazil Adams won the competition with a new personal best and ] of 20.69 m. The throw was also the world leading distance for the event.<ref>Biscayart, Eduardo (2009-05-18).. ]. Retrieved on 2009-05-18.</ref> In August, Adams won at the ] in Berlin with a throw of 20.44 meters, ahead of the German ] and ] of China. |
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At the ] she was defeated by ] by a large margin, in spite of the New Zealander setting a continental record of 20.49 m.<ref>Landells, Steve (2010-03-14). . ]. Retrieved on 2011-03-01.</ref> Adams announced on 28 March 2010 that she would no longer be coached by Kirsten Hellier after an 11 year partnership.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shotput champion Valerie Vili splits with coach |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10634937 |work=New Zealand Herald |date=28 March 2010 |accessdate=28 March 2010}}</ref> In April 2010 she announced her new coach was Didier Poppe.<ref>{{cite news |title=Valerie Vili appoints new coach |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/3577571/Valerie-Vili-appoints-new-coach |work=stuff.co.nz |date=13 April 2010 |accessdate=30 April 2010}}</ref> She was consistently beaten by Nadzeya Astapchuk in the big meetings that season. She set a meeting record and season's best of 20.37 m at the ] meet in Slovakia, later saying that a change in her technique that April had begun to pay dividends.<ref>Juck, Alfons (2010-08-24). . ]. Retrieved on 2010-08-24.</ref> Later that season she won at the ] with a season's best mark of 20.85 m and also competed at the ] in New Delhi, where she set a ] mark of 20.47 m to retain her title. In late 2010 Jean-Pierre Egger took over as her coach from Poppe.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tough year all worth it, says Adams |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10765837 |work=New Zealand Herald |date=14 November 2011 |accessdate=6 March 2012}}</ref> |
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Adams won the ] equalling the championship record 21.24 met by ] in 1987.<ref>{{cite news |title=Women's Shot Put - Final - Threepeat for Adams, with a 21.14m Area Record |first=Steve |last=Landells |url=http://daegu2011.iaaf.org/NewsEventReportsListDetail.aspx?id=61537 |publisher=IAAF |date=29 August 2011 |accessdate=6 March 2012}}</ref> At the ] Adams won the competition with a throw of 20.54 m, a new indoors personal best.<ref>{{cite news |title=Adams completes set of world titles |
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|first=Michael |last=Brown |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10791296 |work=New Zealand Herald |date=11 March 2012 |accessdate=12 March 2012}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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==Personal life== |
Adams after her victory at the 2009 World Championships
