Tori Peeters
New Zealand javelin thrower (born 1994)
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Victoria Elise Moorby (née Peeters; born 17 May 1994) is a New Zealand athlete who is national record holder and a multiple national champion in the javelin throw.
17 May 1994
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| Full name | Victoria Elise Moorby | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Victoria Elise Peeters 17 May 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse |
Cam Moorby (m. 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Track and Field | ||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||
National finals | Javelin throw champion (2012, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal bests | Javelin: 63.26m (Yokohama, 2023) NR | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Early life and education
Peeters grew up from Gore and was educated at St Peter's College, Gore. She studied at the University of Otago in Dunedin, graduating with a Bachelor of Physical Education degree in 2017,[1] and was then based in Cambridge, working at St Peter's School.
Athletics career
Peeters broke the New Zealand national record for javelin throw for the time in March 2014, with a throw of 54.45m, breaking Kirsten Hellier’s previous record set in 1999.[2]
At the Sydney Track Classic in February 2020, Peeters threw a personal best 62.04m which improved her own national record and placed her fifteenth for the year worldwide.[3][4] Peeters was not selected for the 2020 New Zealand Olympic team, which was controversial for some.[5]
In 2022, Peeters won the Oceanic Championship and competed for New Zealand at the 2022 World Athletics Championships where she placed 24th.[6] She achieved sixth place in the final of the women’s javelin at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. In May 2023, she threw a new national record of 63.26m at the Yokohama Grand Prix, Japan.[7]
Competing at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, she finished 7 cm away from qualifying for the final.[8]
In April 2024, she was named in the preliminary New Zealand squad for the 2024 Olympic Games.[9] The following month, she finished third at Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo with a throw of 61.26 metres.[10] She competed in the javelin at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024.[11]
She finished runner-up in the javelin throw event at the 2025 Xiamen Diamond League, China, in April 2025.[12] She finished seventh at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025.[13] She competed at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing seventh in the final.[14]
Moorby won the javelin title at the 2026 New Zealand Athletics Championships in Auckland, throwing 58.78 metres.[15] In May, she won the gold medal at the 2026 Oceania Athletics Championships in Darwin, Australia with a throw of 60.40 metres.[16] On 1 August, Moorby won the silver medal at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, with a third-round throw of 60.44m.[17]
Personal life
In December 2024, Peeters married Cam Moorby at a rural wedding venue near Karapiro; their marriage celebrant was Sarah Cowley Ross.[18] She has subsequently competed under her married name, Tori Moorby.[19]
