Tomas Walsh

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Tomas Walsh athletics

Tomas Walsh Portland 2016.jpg
Tomas Walsh 2016 in Portland

nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
birthday 1st March 1992 (age 28)
place of birth Timaru , New Zealand
size 185 cm
Weight 121 kg
Career
discipline Shot put
Best performance 22.90 m Sport records icon NR.svg
society South Canterbury Coaches
Trainer Ian Baird, Andrew Maclennan
National squad since 2009
status active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World championships 1 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Indoor world championships 2 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
Commonwealth Games 1 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
bronze Rio de Janeiro 2016 21.36 m
IAAF logo World championships
gold London 2017 22.03 m
bronze Doha 2019 22.90 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
gold Birmingham 2018 22.31 m
gold Portland 2016 21.78 m
bronze Sopot 2014 21.26 m
Commonwealth Games Federation logo Commonwealth Games
gold Gold Coast 2018 21.41 m
silver Glasgow 2014 21.19 m
last change: October 6, 2019

Tomas "Tom" Walsh (born March 1, 1992 in Timaru ) is a New Zealand athlete who specializes in the shot put.

Athletic career

Early years

Walsh began taking part in shot put and discus tossing competitions at the age of seven or eight . He was also a talented cricket player and received a six-month athletic scholarship to the prestigious Winchester College in England. After he had become New Zealand youth champion with the ball and the discus despite a comparatively small amount of training, he concentrated from then on increasingly on athletics. At the 2009 World Youth Championships in Bressanone, he finished sixth in the shot put. In contrast, he missed the finals at the 2010 Junior World Championships in Moncton, Canada. His compatriot and later permanent rival Jacko Gill won the race .

In 2012, Walsh won the New Zealand Championships in the shot put and finished third in the discus throw. The following year he successfully defended his title and this time also won with the discus. After surpassing the 20-meter mark in the shot put several times in 2013, he snatched the New Zealand record from Gill in December with a push to 20.61 m.

Rise to the top of the world

His international breakthrough came at the 2014 World Indoor Championships in Sopot, Poland. There he surprisingly won the bronze medal behind the American Ryan Whiting and the German David Storl . With its width of 21.26 m, it exceeded the oceanic indoor record of the Australian Scott Martin by 43 centimeters and at the same time set his outdoor record. Two weeks later, he increased his outdoor best in Melbourne to 21.16 m, improving his own New Zealand record by 55 centimeters. At the New Zealand Championships in Wellington at the end of March, he clearly defeated Jacko Gill and secured his fifth title win in a row. At the end of July he won the silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with 21.19 m behind the Jamaican O'Dayne Richards (21.61 m).

In 2015, Walsh became New Zealand champions for the sixth time in a row in early March. With a new personal best of 21.37 m two weeks later at the World Challenge Meeting in Melbourne, he temporarily sat at the top of the world's best list of the year. In July he achieved a further increase to 21.50 m on Throwing Day in Mutterstadt. At the World Championships in Beijing he was fourth with a new personal best of 21.58 m. A week later he exceeded this performance at the IAAF World Challenge in Zagreb by four centimeters and hit 21.62 m.

Tomas Walsh (left) at the 2016 Olympic Games

In 2016 Walsh celebrated his first title win at international championships with his victory at the World Indoor Championships in Portland . In the course of the competition he increased his indoor performance three times to 21.78 m. In the open-air season, too, he performed consistently well with second places at the Shanghai Golden Grand Prix , the Prefontaine Classic and the London Anniversary Games as well as a victory at the DN Galan in Stockholm. At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he won the bronze medal with 21.36 m behind the two Americans Ryan Crouser (22.52 m) and Joe Kovacs (21.78 m). Nine days later, at the Meeting de Paris , he met Crouser and Kovacs again, this time with a new Oceania record of 22.00 m. He achieved a further increase five days later at Weltklasse Zürich . Here he won with 22.20 m and won the discipline classification in the IAAF Diamond League .

Although Walsh traveled to the 2017 World Championships as a candidate for a medal, the Americans Crouser and Kovacs were still the favorites to win. After convincing in the qualification with 22.14 m, he was the only athlete to surpass the 22-meter mark in the final and clearly won with 22.03 m ahead of Kovacs (21.66 m) and the Croatian Stipe Žunić ( 21.46 m). Although all finalists fell short of their season best, for the first time in history seven pushers exceeded 21 meters in the same competition.

At the 2018 World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Walsh successfully defended his title and set a new championship record with his winning distance of 22.31 m. On March 25, 2018, he increased his best performance to 22.67 m in Auckland and moved up to sixth place in the all-time world best list. At the Commonwealth Games in Goald Coast in early April he celebrated his next title win. In the final, 21.41 m was enough for him to win after he had hit a Commonwealth Games record of 22.45 m in qualifying the day before. He achieved further victories at the Bislett Games in Oslo and at the Athletissima in Lausanne as well as at the Diamond League final in Zurich.

Top performances

  • Shot put: 22.90 m, October 5, 2019, Doha (Oceania record)
    • Hall: 22.31 m, March 3, 2018, Birmingham (Oceania record)

Web links

Commons : Tomas Walsh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Steve Landells: Tom Walsh - New Zealand's massive shot put talent ( English ) IAAF. April 10, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Athletics New Zealand - 23/03/2012 to 25/03/2012 Track and Field Championships 2012 Douglas Track & Field Waitakere Results . (PDF 342 kB) Athletics New Zealand , March 30, 2012, archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; accessed on April 26, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
  3. ↑ Athletics New Zealand 2013 Track & Field Champ Mt Smart - Auckland Results . (PDF 177 kB) Athletics New Zealand , March 26, 2013, archived from the original on April 13, 2014 ; accessed on April 26, 2018 (English, original website no longer available).
  4. ↑ Len Johnson: Shot putter Walsh shares spotlight with distance runners at Zatopek: 10 ( English ) IAAF. December 12, 2013. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  5. ↑ Tom Walsh claims brilliant bronze for NZ ( English ) stuff.co.nz. March 8, 2014. Retrieved April 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Athletics: Walsh breaks another NZ record ( English ) The New Zealand Herald. March 23, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  7. ↑ Tom Walsh beats Jacko Gill for shot put crown ( English ) stuff.co.nz. March 29, 2014. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ Tom Walsh wins New Zealand national shot put title ( English ) stuff.co.nz. March 8, 2015. Accessed July 26, 2015.
  9. ^ Olympic champions Rudisha and Pearson with top times . Southgerman newspaper. March 21, 2015. Accessed August 9, 2020.
  10. ↑ Tom Walsh throws personal best in Germany ( English ) stuff.co.nz. July 26, 2015. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
  11. ↑ Kiwi shot putter Tom Walsh wins Zagreb World Challenge with another personal best ( English ) stuff.co.nz. September 8, 2015. Accessed March 19, 2016.
  12. ↑ Silke Morrissey: New Zealand celebrates Tom Walsh - Tobias Dahm eighth . Leichtathletik.de. March 19, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  13. ↑ Phil Minshull: Report: men's shot put final - Rio 2016 Olympic Games ( English ) IAAF. August 19, 2016. Retrieved August 20, 2016.
  14. ↑ Thomas Byrne: Walsh prevails in thrilling Paris shot put battle - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. August 27, 2016. Retrieved August 29, 2016.
  15. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Walsh sends shot flying to 22.20m in Zurich - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. September 1, 2016. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  16. ↑ Emily Moss: Preview: men's shot put - IAAF World Championships London 2017 ( English ) IAAF. July 30, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  17. ↑ Emily Moss: Report: men's shot put final - IAAF World Championships London 2017 ( English ) IAAF. August 6, 2017. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  18. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Walsh blasts Oceanian shot put record of 22.67m in Auckland ( English ) IAAF. March 25, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  19. ↑ Len Johnson: Walsh dominates shot put, Simbine and Ahye take 100m titles - Commonwealth Games day 2 ( English ) IAAF. April 9, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  20. ↑ Mike Rowbottom: Dominant Hofmann wins javelin in Zurich - IAAF Diamond League ( English ) IAAF. August 30, 2018. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Walsh, Tomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walsh, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand shot putter
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Timaru