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Being athlete-mother has not a bar to success in shot circle

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March 2, 2021
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London, March 2 (IANS) Just six months after giving birth to her first child, double Olympic champion Dame Valerie Adams snared a silver medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Two years after giving birth to twins, former world champion Christina Schwanitz returned to win bronze at the 2019 World Athletics Championship in Doha, and another mum making her mark is Portugal’s 2021 world number one Auriol Dongmo, who will this week be gunning for gold at the European Indoor Championships in Torun.

Since Dongmo gave birth to her son in June 2018, balancing motherhood and training has clearly brought the best out of the 30-year-old Portuguese thrower.

On her return to international competition in 2020 she set no less than six national records (two indoors and four outdoor marks) and hurled the 4kg shot out to a best of 19.53m to end the year joint number one on the world lists. She has built further on that form during the 2021 indoor campaign, unbeaten for the year highlighted by a Portuguese record and world leading mark of 19.65m in Karlsruhe.

So what role has being a mum played in Dongmo’s success over the past couple of seasons?

“It has made me more open to seeing things from another perspective. I now have an extra motivation to fight not only for myself but also my son. This has made me more resilient and more focused in my desire to achieve better results,” she explains.

Born and raised one of four siblings in Ngaoundere, Cameroon, Dongmo was a keen handball and basketball player at school until she was introduced to the shot put at 15.

“A sports teacher at school invited me to throw at a school, championship because he saw that I was strong,” says Dongmo, whose father worked a policeman.

“I didn’t want to go but he pressured me a lot and convinced me to compete. Although I had not competed in one training session, I finished third to win a bronze medal.”

Nonetheless, Dongmo was not instantly taken with the shot. For the next two years she focused on handball only to finally succumb to the pressure of coaches and others persuading her to continue as a thrower. With some initial reluctance she switched her focus to throwing and committed to training three times a week.

Naturally big and strong – despite her parents being relatively small – she quickly made gains but with no specialist shot coach in her city of birth, in 2009 she moved to the capital city of Yaoundé to improve her athletics education.

Joining a specialist coach, Gaston Songkeng, and a group of throwers, she quickly made technical gains and on her international debut in 2011 the then 21-year-old made a huge breakthrough, winning the All African Games title in Maputo with a national record throw of 16.03m.

“That was a very important win for me,” she explains. “I was a young athlete at that time and the federation selected me to gain experience. I went into that competition with a PB under 15 metres, so to win with 16.03m was a big surprise and it gave me huge satisfaction.”

In 2012 she notched a bronze medal at the African Championships in Benin and two years later further revealed an ability to perform to her best when it counted by setting a national record of 16.50m to place seventh at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and added a further 34 centimetres on to this mark to claim gold at the African Championships in Marrakech.

More precious metal was secured in 2015 as she defended her All Africa Games title in Brazzaville and later that season improved her PB to 17.64m.

But in 2016 in pursuit of greater success, she

decided to leave Cameroon to live and train in Morocco under the coaching guidance of Mohamed Fatihi.

“I wanted to improve my training environment by training with a new coach, a better training group with better training facilities,” says Dongmo.

The move also gave her the opportunity for greater competitive opportunities and under Fatihi’s guidance that year she set three national records, improved her PB to 17.92m in Olympic qualification at the Rio and retained her African title.

Despite being unable to match her national record throw in qualification – she placed 12th with 16.99m in the Olympic final — it could not hide the fact 2016 had been a big success.

“Reaching the Olympic final with a personal best meant I’d achieved two of my big goals,” she recalls. “To reach the final made me very happy.”

Source: IANS

Tags: #Athlete#International competion#Sucess
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