Achievement Objectives:
Understand how people sustain and culture heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.
Understand how events have causes and effects.
Context sportsperson - Eliza McCartney
Success Criteria:
I will have researched and informed the readers about how many medals, injures, competition, sport she does, how she got to be in the Olympics
I will have written a report about Eliza McCartney
Eliza McCartney
About Eliza McCartney.
Eliza Mc Cartney is a 24 year old New Zealander who excels at pole vault. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She was a good netball and high jumper before she started working on pole vault.
How many times has she been to the Olympics?
Eliza Mc Cartney has been to the Olympics once in Rio 2016 but also did the Commonwealth Games as well. Unfortunately she did not pole vault the 4.50 m mark which was the qualification but jumped 4.30m so she is not competing in the Tokyo Olympics 2020.
How many medals has Eliza McCartney earned in the Olympics?
Eliza McCartney has earned one bronze medal from the Rio Olympics 2016. She got the bronze medal after pole vaulting 4.80m. She has also won one silver in Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games. She didn’t enter the pole vault at the Commonwealth Games until the competitors were pole vaulting 4.55m. After getting to 4.70m she was pole vaulting against one other person, Alysha Newman. Eliza McCartney failed her first jump which was 4.75m but her competitor made the jump. Eliza McCartney skipped 4.75m to go and jump 4.80m but failed both attempts she had.
Has Eliza McCartney had any major injuries?
Eliza McCartney hurt her achilles in Germany a couple weeks before Rio 2016 but she managed to get bronze at the games which was awesome! One year after the Rio Olympics 2016 she had a problem with Achilles Tendonitis and a year after that she had some hamstring issues. Her medical team thinks Eliza McCartney has an autoimmune problem which mostly targets her achilles.
Who is Eliza McCartney’s biggest competitor?
Her biggest competition in the Commonwealth Games was Alysha Newman who won gold. Alysha is 27 years old and she is from Canada. Eliza McCartney’s biggest competition in the Olympics is Katerina Stefanidi from Greece who came first in Rio 2016. Her other competition would be Sandi Morris from America who got the silver in Rio.
How did Eliza McCartney qualify for the Rio Olympics 2016?
Eliza McCartney had to jump 4.50m to qualify for the Olympics in Rio. Eliza McCartney didn’t make it into the Tokyo Olympics 2020 because she did not meet the qualifying mark of 4.70m.
By Indi
Indi commented on by Fynn
Peer Evaluation of Olympic Study
One thing I learned from your study was that Eliza Mccartney exists and does pole vaulting.
You met your success criteria because for explaining all the things in the success criteria.
He pai ki ahau… I really liked that you had a lot of writing and stayed on topic.
Next time you could think about going more in depth with the rival or something.
Bibliography:
Stuff, Stuff 2, Wikipedia, Wikipedia 2, Wikipedia 3, NZherald
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