Ricky White (Sara Cohen), wins the AWD 100m at the Otago
secondary schools athletics championships at the Caledonian
Ground on Saturday from David Takarei (Kings, right) and
Matthew Aitken (Otago Boys). Photo by Jane Dawber.
Ricky White (Sara Cohen) displayed the same exuberant
confidence as triple Olympic sprint champion Usain Bolt
(Jamacia) when he broke three records at the Caledonian Ground
on Saturday.
White (18) led the charge at the annual Otago secondary
schools athletics championships, when 18 records were broken.
White's crowning achievement was to break the New Zealand
Athletes With Disability ID shot put record with a distance
of 9.60m.
It beat the old national record by 1.05m and the Otago
secondary school record by 2.98m.
He is coached by Sport Otago's Sportcoach head Mike Waddell.
"Ricky's a natural and is good at everything," Waddell said.
"He is a natural talent and is very fast in the circle."
Waddell believes that White could become an international in
AWD sport.
"It is up to him. It depends how far he wants to go," he
said.
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