Nick Willis!
New Zealand’s very own 1500m champion was born on the 25th of April, 1983.He was raised in Lower Hutt knowing he would always have a spot in his heart for running.He went to Hutt Valley high getting an athletics scholarship for the University of Michigan (U.K).Nick’s brother Steve Willis, is also an amazing runner, they were the only New Zealand brothers to have both broken 4:00mins for the mile.
Nick Willis didn’t just get his Olympic spots handed to him on a plate, he goes for a 10 hour run every week. Unfortunately in 2010 Nick had a fall out because of his knee surgery and not having a strong come back until 2011.His coach Ron Warhust born in 1943 has helped him all the way to the top and getting him to events like the Olympics and the commonwealth games.Ron Warhust is a former American track and field coach.He also was the head coach at the University of Michigan’s men track and field coach team for 8 years!
Nick Willis has won many amazing awards like 1 Olympic silver, 2 Olympic bronze and 1 commonwealth games winner.One of his closest competition is Matthew Ceantrowitz winning gold to Nick at the 2016 Olympics.He’s had plenty of competition being part athletics New Zealand club.Only being 33 years old he still has heaps of time to break records and be New Zealand’s 1500m champion. 
