Victoria Moorby (née Peeters; born 17 May 1994) is a New Zealand athlete who is national record holder and a multiple national champion in the

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Early life and education

Peeters grew up from

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and was educated at

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. She studied in

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, and was then based in

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, working at St Peter's School.

Athletics career

Peeters broke the New Zealand national record for

for the time in March 2014, with a throw of 54.45m, breaking Kirsten Hellier’s previous record set in 1999. 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. Peeters was not selected for the 2020 New Zealand Olympic team, which was controversial for some. In 2022, Peeters won the Oceanic Championship and competed for New Zealand at the

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where she placed 24th. She achieved sixth place in the final of the women’s javelin at the

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. In May 2023, she threw a new national record of 63.26m at the Yokohama Grand Prix, Japan. Competing at the

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, she finished 7 cm away from qualifying for the final. In April 2024, she was named in the preliminary New Zealand squad for the 2024 Olympic Games. The following month, she finished third at Golden Grand Prix in Tokyo with a throw of 61.26 metres. She competed in the javelin at the

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in August 2024. She finished runner-up in the javelin throw event at the

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, China, in April 2025. She finished seventh at the

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event in China on 3 May 2025.

Personal life

In December 2024, Peeters married Cam Moorby at a rural wedding venue near

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; their marriage celebrant was Sarah Cowley Ross. She has subsequently competed under her married name, Tori Moorby.

References

External links

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Tori Peeters
at the

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* 1994 births Living people New Zealand female javelin throwers Commonwealth Games athletes for New Zealand Athletes (track and field) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Gore, New Zealand New Zealand Athletics Championships winners Athletes (track and field) at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for New Zealand People educated at St Peter's College, Gore 21st-century New Zealand sportswomen {{NewZealand-athletics-bio-stub