Bertrand Vili (born 6 September 1983) is a French former track and field athlete who competed in the discus throw. He represented France at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and was a silver medallist at the 2005 Jeux de la Francophonie.[1] He was a double shot put/discus gold medallist at the 2001 South Pacific Mini Games and also won javelin throw silver.[2] He won the gold medal in the discus at the 2007 Pacific Games in a games record of 58.31 m.[3] He successfully defended that title four years later at the 2011 Pacific Games, held in his native New Caledonia.[4] He has a personal best of and is the New Caledonian national record holder.
He won three straight national titles at the French Athletics Championships from 2007 to 2009.[5] He has also won at the Australian Athletics Championships (2009) and won a shot put and two discus titles at the New Zealand Athletics Championships between 2002 and 2004.[6]
In 2006 he wrote off his car in an accident while narrowly beneath the drink-drive limit. He was married to fellow athlete Valerie Adams from 2004 to 2010, with Adams citing Vili's drinking as a cause of their marital breakdown in her autobiography.[7] His cousin Laurent Vili is a former shot putter and rugby player.[8]
2001 | South Pacific Mini Games | Middlegate, Norfolk Island | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Shot put | 16.81 m | |
bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus throw | 49.41 m | ||||
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Javelin throw | 63.78 m | ||||
2002 | World Junior Championships | Kingston, Jamaica | 5th | Shot put | 20.12 m | ||
11th | Discus throw | 57.87 m | |||||
2003 | European U23 Championships | Bydgoszcz, Poland | 7th | Discus throw | 54.88 m | ||
2005 | European U23 Championships | Erfurt, Germany | 11th | Discus throw | 55.40 m | ||
Jeux e la Francophonie | Niamey, Niger | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Discus throw | 54.05 m | ||
2007 | Pacific Games | Apia, Samoa | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus throw | 58.31 m | |
bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Hammer throw | 55.73 m | ||||
2009 | World Championships | Berlin, Germany | 18th (q) | Discus throw | 60.88 m | ||
2011 | Pacific Games | Nouméa, New Caledonia | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Discus throw | 54.12 m |