Kerson Hadley

Kerson Hadley ( May 22nd 1989 to Ponape ) is a Micronesian swimmer who represented his native country at the 2008 Summer Olympics and 2012.

Life and career

Hadley was known on the main island of Ponape, now known as Pohnpei, born in 1989, where he grew up and his swimming career started. Since his childhood and youth he heard the Pohnpei Swim team, in which he took around his participation in the 2012 Olympic Games by Sweeter Daniel, who himself was once a successful swimmer and her homeland at the first Micronesian Games in 1969 has been trained. While Hadley's size in 2008 was not provided with 171 cm and his weight 50 kg Dimensions one came in in 2012 to a size of 168 cm and a weight of 68 kg. Already in 2008 he took for his country at the discipline 50m freestyle part, left there but already in the heats with a time of 25.34 from what brought him in the final standings to 70th place out of 97 starters. At that time he trained with swimming colleague Debra Daniel, daughter of Daniel Sweeter, for the Olympics in a local river, before he was taken thanks to the Samsung Oceania Talent Identification program to an intensive training for the games to Guam.

Hadley, the Pohnpei Iceland Central High School visited during his part in the Olympics in 2008, at that time already was a successful swimmer who represented the country at three short-course world championships and was also successful in other competitions. So he was at the Micronesian Games 2006 on Saipan, the largest island and capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, each a gold ( 200m backstroke ) and a silver medal ( 50m backstroke ) and three bronze medals ( 100m butterfly, 100m backstroke and 50 m freestyle ). Personal best he scored at the Short Course World Championships 2008 in Manchester in the disciplines 50m butterfly, 50m backstroke, 50m breaststroke and 50m freestyle. During the three months of training time in Guam athletes from the Oceania Foundation, which supports the athletes were asked $ 3000 available. In the Micronesian Games 2010 Kerson Hadley did not seem on the medals table in the system while Debra Daniel was charged with seven gold and six silver medals for successful athlete in their home country.

In 2012, Hadley is qualified for the same discipline at the Olympic Games and represented the country at this already the second time in a row. Although in his group, he took first place in the heats on August 2, but he could with a time of 24.82 is by far not qualify for getting ahead in the competition. This was at the same time also his last appearance at the Summer Olympics in 2012. Nevertheless, Hadley, who participated in a training camp funded by a London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games six weeks before the Olympic Games in Liverpool secured, in this forward a personal best.