Former world junior shotput champion Jacko Gill has been the star performer at the aptly named 'Big Shot' meeting in Christchurch this afternoon.
The 21-year-old set a New Zealand residents record and bettered the qualifying distance for the Olympics in the process.
Expecting to throw 20.5 metres, Gill was clearly rapt -- and more than a little relieved to achieve what he did.
Not only was 20.82m a personal best for the powerfully built Aucklander, it also was good enough to qualify for the Rio Olympics, and the best ever throw by a Kiwi in New Zealand.
"It's massive. Just to get the qualifier out of the way is neat -- I was a bit worried about that," he said.
The Big Shot was held in a gap-filler in downtown Christchurch, at a makeshift post-earthquake venue -- and among those watching on was Gill's arch rival Tom Walsh.
He still has the NZ record of 21.62m -- but couldn't compete because of a hip injury suffered in training yesterday.
"I'm no good today, still some soreness -- and it's amazing how you can feel in a couple of days," Walsh said.
"It seems a lot like an injury I did in Germany six months ago -- I was out for two weeks."
In good form was track star Nick Willis -- the former Olympic silver medallist too powerful in the street mile around the CBD.
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