EVENT: Athletics: Women's Shot Put
Tokyo 2020 will be Maddison-Lee's first Olympic Games.
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EVENT: Athletics: Women's Shot Put
Tokyo 2020 will be Maddison-Lee's first Olympic Games.
She is no stranger to the international scene though, having represented New Zealand in shot put in a series of global events, including the World Youth Championships, World U-20 Championships, World University Games and World Championships.
She has won gold three times internationally, at the Oceania U-20 Championships, Oceania Championships and World U-20 Championships.
After triumphing at the World U-20 Championships in Finland, she won the Emerging Talent Award at the 2019 ISPS Handa Halberg Awards.
Her personal best is 18.32m, thrown at the Sir Graeme Douglas International in Auckland in 2019.
The middle of three sisters, she comes from a sporting family, her father played basketball while her mother was a hockey player. Initially, she played netball before switching to sprinting and then shot put.
