EVENT: Athletics: Women's Shot Put
Maddi Wesche enjoyed her breakthrough performance when winning shot put gold with her sixth-round throw at the 2018 World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland.
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EVENT: Athletics: Women's Shot Put
Maddi Wesche enjoyed her breakthrough performance when winning shot put gold with her sixth-round throw at the 2018 World U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland.
At the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games the Aucklander set a personal best of 18.65m in qualification before bettering this mark to throw 18.98m to place sixth in the final.
Wesche has continued to show her rising status in 2022, posting a new personal best of 19.10m when winning the New Zealand senior shot title in March.
At the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Wesche won bronze with a throw of 18.84m.
The former Lynfield College student is coached by Mike Schofield.
