Valerie Adams

This week for writing I was learning to paragraph, stuck to one topics, My first sentence is my topic sentence, I have added 2-3 supporting details and my last sentence is a concluding sentence. I was writing about Valerie Adams my first paragraph was about Valerie Adams. my second paragraph was about her childhood and the last paragraph was about her medals and after the last paragraph we did wrote about her medals.

Valerie Adams 

Valerie Adams competes in the women's shot put. She was born on the 6 of october 1984,

in rotorua New Zealand. She started shot put when she was 14 years old. 

When Valerie Adams went to Southern Cross campus. Valerie Adams’ mum died from cancer when Valerie was 16 years old. Valerie Adams' dad was an Englishman who settled in New Zealand. Valerie Adams' sister is a Paralympics shot putter and discus thrower.  Valerie’s brother Steven Adams plays for the NBA and her two other brothers play professional basketball in New Zealand. Her personal record is 21,24 meters.

At the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, she won a gold in shot put and then at the 2012 Olympics in London she got another gold. At the Rio Olympics in 2016 she got a silver and then 5 years later at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo she won a bronze in shot put.

Valerie Adams won her first World Championship when she was only 16 years old.