1. Jackson Gill was born on 20 December 1994 and is a New Zealand track and field athlete who competes in the shot put.
13 Facts About Jacko Gill
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At the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics, as a 15-year-old, Jacko Gill won the gold in the shot put with a distance of 20.76m, beating 18- and 19-year-olds and becoming the youngest-ever male junior champion.
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Jacko Gill improved to 22.60m in finishing second at the inaugural Youth Olympic Games despite being unwell.
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On 11 December 2010, at the New Zealand National Secondary Schools Championships, Jacko Gill set a youth world-best performance of 23.86m.
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On 23 April 2011, at 16 years of age, Jacko Gill threw 20.01m with the senior shot.
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Jacko Gill's throw broke the 44-year-old New Zealand national record set by Les Mills in 1967.
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An appeal to the IAAF for an exception to be made to this regulation to allow Jacko Gill to compete was rejected.
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Jacko Gill has been reported as the youngest and one of the lightest athletes to throw over 20m.
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On 7 July 2011 at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Lille Metropole, France, Jacko Gill won the gold medal by 4m with a World Youth Best Performance of 24.35m, which he subsequently improved later that year with a throw of 24.45m in Auckland on 12 December.
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On 20 July 2013 Jacko Gill broke the Oceania Junior Record with 22.32m at Brisbane, Australia.
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On 25 June 2014 in Rarotonga, Jacko Gill improved his personal best to 20.70m in winning the shot put title at the 2014 Oceania Area Championships in Athletics.
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Jacko Gill's father, Walter, is a former discus thrower and national shot-put champion, and his mother, Nerida, is a former discus thrower.
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Jacko Gill was coached by Didier Poppe during the years of his World Youth and World Junior Championships campaigns.