<P> Adams won a silver medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro with a distance of 20.42 m behind US athlete Michelle Carter . </P> <P> Adams is one of only nine athletes (along with Usain Bolt, Veronica Campbell - Brown, Jacques Freitag, Yelena Isinbayeva, Kirani James, Jana Pittman, Dani Samuels, and David Storl) to win world championships at the youth, junior, and senior level of an athletic event . She is the first woman to win four consecutive individual titles at the world track and field championships . </P> <P> In 1998 Adams met former javelin thrower Kirsten Hellier, who would become her coach for the next 11 years . Adams first came to prominence when winning the World Youth Championships in 2001, with a throw of 16.87 m . She followed this up in 2002 by becoming World Junior champion, throwing 17.73 m, and had her first taste of senior success winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games with 17.45 m . </P> <P> She finished fifth at the 2003 World Championships at eighteen years of age . At her first Olympics in 2004, Adams finished seventh, while still recovering from an appendectomy she had just weeks before the competition . </P>

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