Valerie+Adams

[[image:https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT83xmO2-_J9Li43kD-bjIuqwLwDERathaBGQWpLyIav807GdEq width="210" height="290"]] Valerie Adams is a famous New Zealand Shot-putter.
====When Kiwi shot-put champion Valerie Adams won the gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, she looked skyward in memory of her mother, Lilika, who had died when she was a teenager. ==== ====The six-foot-four (1.93m) Rotorua-born Adams was already a Famous New Zealand athlete and ranked second in the world. ==== -Michaela