Athletics: Adams continues winning streak

Valerie Adams won her 37th consecutive competition this morning.

With just over three weeks to the start of the World Championships in Moscow, the double Olympian threw the 4kg shot put 20.76 metres in Lucerne, Switzerland, and was untroubled in beating the world No3 for 2013, German Christina Schwanitz, who managed only 19.65m.

In Moscow, Adams will attempt to win her fourth consecutive world title, having already won at Osaka (2007), Berlin (2009) and Daegu (2011). The Swiss-based Aucklander also won the bronze medal in Helsinki in 2005 and was promoted to second after a historic drug test positive from the championships by Belarusian Nadzeya Ostapchuk.

Adams has one more scheduled competition before Moscow, a Diamond League meeting in London on July 27.

At the same Lucerne meeting, 20-year-old Hamilton hammer thrower Julia Ratcliffe placed second with a best throw of 64.03 metres.

 

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