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Adam NelsonAdam Nelson who was born on July, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, is a prized American shotputter. A 1997 graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Nelson has competed in two Olympic Games. In 1996, Nelson worked at a concession stand during the 1996 Summer Olympics in his hometown of Atlanta. While he was an undergraduate at Dartmouth, Nelson won various accolades as a member of the track and field team. He still holds the Dartmouth shot put record with a throw of 65 feet, 3 inches. In addition, Nelson played on the football team, becoming the first freshman to play football at Dartmouth in 1993. Prior to his playing, the Ivy League prohibited first-year students from playing on the varsity football team. In the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, Nelson earned a silver medal after coming in first place in the 2000 Olympic Trials for shotput. Going into the Games, Nelson was the favorite to win, having won every major shotput event in the summer of 2000. His throw of 69 feet, 7 inches was just three inches short of the throw by the gold medalist. At the time, was the fourth longest throw in U.S. history and the ninth farthest ever in the world. Nelson also earned a silver medal in the shot put finals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. His throw of 69 feet, 9 inches, was considerably behind gold medalist's Andrei Mikhnevich's throw of 71 feet, 2 inches. Nelson's silver medal was the first track and field medal for the United States in the 2004 Summer Olympics. At six feet tall and 255 pounds, Adam Nelson is certainly one of the top shotputters in the world, and he has two consecutive silver medals from the Olympic Games to show for it. External links Nelson, Adam Nelson, Adam
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