Kerson Hadley

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Kerson Hadley (born May 22, 1989 in Ponape ) is a Micronesian swimmer who represented his home country at the Summer Olympics in 2008 and 2012 .

life and career

Hadley was born in 1989 on the main island of Ponape , now known as Pohnpei, where he grew up and started his swimming career. Since his childhood and youth, he belongs to Pohnpei Swim Team to where he about his participation in the 2012 Olympic Games by Sweeter Daniel, who himself was once a successful swimmer and their homeland in the first Micronesian Games in 1969 represented , was trained. While Hadley's height was given in 2008 with 171 cm and his weight with 50 kg, in 2012 one came to a height of 168 cm and a weight of 68 kg. Already in 2008 he took part in the 50 m freestyle discipline for his home country , but was eliminated there in the preliminary races with a time of 25.34, which brought him 70th place out of 97 starters in the final ranking. At that time he was training with swimming colleague Debra Daniel , the daughter of Sweeter Daniel, for the Olympics in a local river before he was brought to Guam for intensive training for the Games thanks to the Samsung Oceania Talent Identification Program .

Hadley, who attended Pohnpei Island Central High School during his 2008 Olympic participation , was already a successful swimmer at that time, representing his home country at three short course world championships and also being successful in other competitions. At the Micronesian Games in 2006 on Saipan , the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands , he received a gold (200 m back) and a silver medal (50 m back) as well as three bronze medals (100 m butterfly, 100 m back and 50 m freestyle). He achieved personal bests at the World Short Course Championships in Manchester in 2008 in the disciplines of 50 m butterfly, 50 m back, 50 m chest and 50 m freestyle. During the three months of training in Guam, the athletes were given $ 3,000 from the Oceania Foundation , which supports the athletes. At the Micronesian Games 2010 , Kerson Hadley did not appear in the medal table, whereas Debra Daniel was the most successful athlete in her home country with seven gold and six silver medals.

In 2012, Hadley qualified for the same discipline at the Olympic Games and represented his home country for the second time in a row. Although he reached first place in his group in the preliminaries on August 2nd, with a time of 24.82 he was far from qualifying for progress in the competition. This was also his last appearance at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Nevertheless, Hadley, who was already participating in a training camp funded by a London Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games six weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in Liverpool, secured a personal one in this run-up Best performance.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d FSM athletes heading to Beijing (English), accessed on August 4, 2012
  2. ↑ Medal table of the Micronesian Games at sportingpulse.com (English), accessed on August 4, 2012
  3. ^ Medal table of the Federated States of Micronesia at the Micronesian Games 2010 (English), accessed on August 5, 2012
  4. ↑ CONGRATULATIONS TO FSM OLYMPIC TEAM  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed August 4, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.micronesiaforum.org  
  5. ↑ FSM swimmer Hadley sets personal record  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed August 4, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.guampdn.com  
personal data
SURNAME Hadley, Kerson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION micronesian swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Ponape , Federated States of Micronesia