Bertrand Vili

Bertrand Vili (born 6 September 1983) is a French former track and field athlete who competed in the discus throw. He represented France at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and was a silver medallist at the 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie.^[1] He was a double shot put/discus gold medallist at the 2001 South Pacific Mini Games and also won javelin throw silver.^[2] He won the gold medal in the discus at the 2007 Pacific Games in a games record of 58.31 m.^[3] He successfully defended that title four years later at the 2011 Pacific Games, held in his native New Caledonia.^[4] He has a personal best of 63.66 m (208 ft 10+1⁄4 in) and is the New Caledonian national record holder.

He won three straight national titles at the French Athletics Championships from 2007 to 2009.^[5] He has also won at the Australian Athletics Championships (2009) and won a shot put and two discus titles at the New Zealand Athletics Championships between 2002 and 2004.^[6]

In 2006 he wrote off his car in an accident while narrowly beneath the drink-drive limit. He was married to fellow athlete Valerie Adams from 2004 to 2010, with Adams citing Vili's drinking as a cause of their marital breakdown in her autobiography.^[7] His cousin Laurent Vili is a former shot putter and rugby player.^[8]

International competitions

• Positions in qualifying rounds (q) are overall positions in the round including all groups.

National titles

• French Athletics Championships
  • Discus throw: 2007, 2008, 2009
• New Zealand Athletics Championships
  • Shot put: 2002
  • Discus throw: 2003, 2004
• Australian Athletics Championships
  • Discus throw: 2009

See also

• List of discus throw national champions (men)
• List of Australian athletics champions (men)

References

External links

• Bertrand Vili at World Athletics