Sydney Track Classic good for Vili
Thirteen Kiwi athletes competed in events at the Sydney leg of the Australian GP series on the 27th of February.
Valerie Vili again showed great early season form with a dominant win in the Women's Shot with a Put of 20.57m. Vili improved on her winning performance from the same meet last year but will be up against stiff competition when she meets Ostapchuk (21.70m Indoors in 2010) at the World Indoor Champs in March.
Other athletes to perform well include Carl van der Speck (10.60) in the 100m, James Dol,phin (20.83) in the 200m, Adrian Blincoe (3:38) in the 1500m and Stuart Farquhar (79.80m) in the Javelin.
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From the IAAF:
Valerie Vili again showed great early season form with a dominant win in the Women's Shot with a Put of 20.57m. Vili improved on her winning performance from the same meet last year but will be up against stiff competition when she meets Ostapchuk (21.70m Indoors in 2010) at the World Indoor Champs in March.
Other athletes to perform well include Carl van der Speck (10.60) in the 100m, James Dol,phin (20.83) in the 200m, Adrian Blincoe (3:38) in the 1500m and Stuart Farquhar (79.80m) in the Javelin.
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From the IAAF:
Vili, perhaps the most dominant female athlete in any event today, was colossal in blasting the iron orb 20.57m which improved her own meet record of 20.09m set only last year. Even without the stimulation of any serious opponents, Vili’s mark approached the Australian All-Comers Record of 20.69m set by Natalya Lisovskaya at the IAAF World Cup in Canberra in 1985.
“I’m pretty happy. It’s my second throw for the season. There is nobody to chase here but you want to put on a good show for the crowd so I’m pretty happy,” Vili said. But she knows the tension will rise when she gets to Doha to face Nadzeya Ostapchuk, the Belorussian who leads the world with her put of 21.70m indoors earlier in February.
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