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A few weeks ago Eliza McCartney cleared 4.92m in a meeting in Germany, beating the personal best that she’d set a month earlier in America during a Diamond League event by a good seven centimetres. Now she’s edged up another two cm’s.
Tom Walsh brought home the gold but he had plenty of kiwi company at the Athletics World Champs who didn't quite make the same headlines.
Honestly, Tom Walsh is one of New Zealand’s top athletes. At this stage he simply has to be. Perhaps he doesn’t look like Sonny Bill Williams when he takes the sleeves off but this guy is an athletic freak in his own right
The Athletics World Championships are taking place in London from August 4-13. It ain’t the Olympics… but it’s the next best thing, don’t doubt it.
Despite a pregnancy-induced hiatus for Queen Val, the kiwi Diamond League contingent has actually grown without its long-time pioneer. Tom Walsh is back to defend his crown and he’s been joined by Olympic bronze medallist Eliza McCartney.
Early February in Melbourne, Australia begins the inaugural Nitro Athletics meet, a team-based track & field competition that’s being called the Twenty20 of athletics. Usain Bolt's gonna be there.
The Olympics may have only just ended but the noble art-form of shot put knows no interruptions and with that both Valerie Adams and Tom Walsh were straight back into competition in Europe.