Elise Takosi (born 7 November 1988) is a track and field athlete from

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. At the

2009 Pacific Mini Games The 2009 Pacific Mini Games was held in the Cook Islands from 21 September to 2 October. It was the 8th edition of the Pacific Mini Games. Torch lighters were the athletes Daniel Tutai and Patricia Taea, the Cook Islands' junior sportsman and ...

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), Takosi won silver for

hammer throw The hammer throw is one of the four throwing events in regular track and field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and javelin. The "hammer" used in this sport is not like any of the tools also called by that name. It consis ...

with a throw of 49.80 metres. At the

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( Mata-Utu), she won gold for hammer throw, with a throw of 53.63 metres. She also placed fifth for both the discus throw (35.12 metres) and

shot put The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the ''shot''—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's ...

(11.32 metres). Takosi has won three gold medals for hammer throw at the Pacific Games (2007, 2011, and 2015). At the

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in Apia she won with a throw of 47.41 metres, at the

2011 Pacific Games The 2011 Pacific Games (officially known as NC 2011) took place in Nouméa, New Caledonia, from August 27 to September 10, 2011. Nouméa was the 14th host of the Pacific Games. Upon closure of the registration for entries, "some 4,300 athletes" h ...

in Nouméa, she had a throw of 50.13 metres, and at the

2015 Pacific Games The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby. More tha ...

in Port Moresby wi, also setting the record for the games. Takosi holds the record for New Caledonia in Hammer throw, with her personal best of 54.08 metres, set on 13 June 2011 in Colmar, France. Her personal best for discus throw is 41.90 metres (set in

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) and for shot put is 12.74 metres (set in Saran).

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Living people 1988 births New Caledonian female athletes Female hammer throwers Female discus throwers Female shot putters Pacific Games gold medalists for New Caledonia Pacific Games medalists in athletics {{Oceania-athletics-bio-stub

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