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Full name | Maddison-Lee Wesche |
Born | West Auckland, New Zealand | 13 June 1999
Alma mater | Massey University |
Sport | |
Country | New Zealand |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Shot put |
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Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | Shot put: 20.09 m (Tokyo, 2025) |
Medal record |
Maddison-Lee Wesche (born 13 June 1999) is a New Zealand athlete specialising in the shot put. [1] She won the silver medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics. In 2018, she also won a gold medal at the World U20 Championships in Tampere.
Wesche was born in West Auckland, New Zealand, to parents Renee and Hans. [2] [3] [4] [5] She is of Samoan descent. [4] The middle of three sisters, Wesche comes from a sporting family: her father played basketball, while her mother was a hockey player. She initially played netball before switching to sprinting and, eventually, shot put. [6]
Wesche was educated at Lynfield College in Blockhouse Bay, Auckland, from 2013 to 2017. [7] She completed studies towards the Bachelor of Arts in psychology at Massey University. [8]
Wesche set a personal best of 18.65 m in the qualifying round of shot put at the 2020 Summer Olympics, improving to 18.98 m in the final and finishing in sixth place. [9]
Wesche took the bronze medal at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, with a put of 20.06 m, equalling her personal best. [10]
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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2015 | World Youth Championships | Cali, Colombia | 17th (q) | Shot put (3 kg) | 15.23 m |
2016 | World U20 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 20th (q) | Shot put | 13.79 m |
2017 | Oceania Championships | Suva, Fiji | 1st | Shot put | 15.27 m |
2018 | World U20 Championships | Tampere, Finland | 1st | Shot put | 17.09 m |
2019 | Oceania Championships | Townsville, Australia | 1st | Shot put | 18.04 m |
Universiade | Naples, Italy | 6th | Shot put | 17.22 m | |
World Championships | Doha, Qatar | 25th (q) | Shot put | 17.22 m | |
2021 | Olympic Games | Tokyo, Japan | 6th | Shot put | 18.98 m |
2022 | World Championships | Eugene, United States | 7th | Shot put | 19.50 m |
Commonwealth Games | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 3rd | Shot put | 19.03 m | |
2023 | World Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 7th | Shot put | 19.51 m |
2024 | World Indoor Championships | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 4th | Shot put | 19.62 m |
Olympic Games | Paris, France | 2nd | Shot put | 19.86 m | |
2025 | World Indoor Championships | Nanjing, China | 15th | Shot put | 16.52 m |