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Wednesday 30 August 2017

Famous New Zealander from History

Who is the person's name?
*Dame Valerie Adams

When were they born/ when did they pass away?
*Shae was born on the 6th of october 1984 (age 32)

Where were they born/ did they live?
*Adams was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, to a Tongan mother (Lilika Ngauamo) and an English father (Sydney Adams) Nickname syd . Her father, who settled in New Zealand after service in the Royal Navy, had a total of 18 children with five women.

What are they famous for?
*Rio was Valerie's fourth Olympic Games winning the shot put silver medal. Valerie also took medals at Beijing in 2008 (all gold) and London in 2012 (all gold) and finishing seventh in her debut at Athens 2004.

Valerie has been the dominant women's shot putter in the world since 2006, only beaten twice in major world events. She also got 3 indoor world champion gold medals.

What are some of their accomplishments?
(the things that they have done)
*Rio was Valerie's fourth Olympic Games winning the shot put silver medal. Valerie also took medals at Beijing in 2008 (all gold) and London in 2012 (all gold) and finishing seventh in her debut at Athens 2004.

Valerie has been the dominant women's shot putter in the world since 2006, only beaten twice in major world events. She also got 3 indoor world champion gold medals. Dame valerie adams is the first woman to win 4 consecutive individual titles of the world track and field championships, achieving gold in (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013).

Dame valerie was named in the international association of athletics federation well female athlete of the year in (2014)


Why are they a good role model for kiwis?
*Because she can encourage people to push themselves as far as she did and as in doing that she got rewarded a lot of gold medals and now she is a four-time World champion, three time World Indoor champion, two-time Olympic and three-time Commonwealth champion.
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1 comment:

  1. Hi Tumanako,

    What a wonderful role model Valerie Adams is! If you got to ask her one question, what would it be?

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